The Latest Developments on Spider-Man Coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

It's been a busy day since Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures announced that they had reached a deal to allow Spider-Man to come to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in addition to having the two studios co-produce a solo Spider-Man movie for 2017.

At this point, we still have more questions than answers, but the Internet has spent much of Tuesday trying to dig up whatever news on Spider-Man coming home to Marvel that it could.

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Marvel offered Sony billions for Spider-Man, but the studios reached a unique sharing deal instead

When Disney bought Marvel in 2009, they paid $4 billion for the House of Ideas. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney and Marvel were willing to shell out several billion dollars more in order to get the cinematic rights to Spider-Man back. Sony wasn't interested in giving up the character completely, so the two studios instead reached a unique deal for Spider-Man.

Variety reported that no money will be exchanged between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures. Marvel won't pay to use Spider-Man in a Marvel Cinematic Universe film nor will they profit from any of the Sony-produced Spider-Man films. On the flip side, Sony won't profit from Marvel's movies that use Spider-Man.

Instead, Sony Pictures gets to ride the Marvel Cinematic Universe's success and have Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige co-produce Spider-Man movies, hopefully ending a trend of diminishing returns on Spider-Man installments.

Marvel finally gets to use Spider-Man in Cinematic Universe, most likely debuting the character in next May's Captain America: The Winter Soldier. There's going to come a day when Robert Downey Jr. isn't putting the Iron Man armor on anymore and Marvel will need a new centerpiece. That's going to be Spider-Man.

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Andrew Garfield's time as Spider-Man is over; Marvel and Sony will cast younger and bring the character back to high school

Andrew Garfield was a great Spider-Man in subpar Spider-Man movies. The fact that the actor is 31 makes it ever harder to believe that he can play a high school-aged Peter Parker, though. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is brimming with 30-something white dudes (usually named Chris) — Marvel and Sony want to really bring Spider-Man back to high school roots and cast someone much younger.

Variety offered two names being considered for the role: Logan Lerman and Dylan O'Brien.

Lerman's name has been continuously linked to the rumors another Spider-Man reboot. The Fury and Perks of Being a Wallflower actor was also a finalist for the role when Sony went with Garfield for The Amazing Spider-Man.

O'Brien jumped into the spotlight with MTV's Teen Wolf reboot. After playing the sidekick in that series, he became a leading man in the cinematic adaption of The Maze Runner.

Take those two names with a grain of salt. Variety also notes that note only have no actors been approached for the role, but Sony and Marvel have yet to even decide if they're going to reboot Spider-Man with Peter Parker or finally bring Miles Morales to the big screen. The easy money is on everyone sticking with Peter Parker but if Miles Morales becomes the guy, the entire casting guessing game starts anew. Probably not Donald Glover ...

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Sinister Six and Venom are supposedly still happening

Even though Sony has canceled The Amazing Spider-Man 3, Variety reports that the studio is still developing Sinister Six and Venom spinoffs. Honestly, I don't see how that could happen. Those two films were woven into the fabric of the Amazing Spider-Man universe. That franchise is dead. It's only a matter of time before Sony officially cans its spinoff movie plans too.

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Hugh Jackman still wants Wolverine to crossover with the Marvel Cinematic Universe

C'mon, make this happen for Hugh Jackman. He wants Wolverine to have his chance against Iron Man.

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