Sony and Amazon Are Weighing Four New ‘Spider-Man’ TV Spinoffs
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Sony's attempts to build out a television universe around Spider-Man have followed a genuinely bumpy road over the past several years. What started as an ambitious plan to mine hundreds of Marvel characters tied to the web-slinger's world has produced far more false starts than actual hits, testing the patience of both the studio and its streaming partner. That partnership hit another rough patch just this past week, when Prime Video officially canceled 'Spider-Noir' after a single season, despite the Nicolas Cage-led series earning strong reviews and several Emmy wins. The cancellation came down to the increasingly common streaming calculation of costs versus viewership, even as the show's critical reception suggested Sony finally had a genuine hit on its hands. Rather than abandoning the Spider-Man television strategy entirely, Sony and Amazon appear to be doubling down with a more cautious approach. According to an exclusive report, the two companies are weighing four different Spider-Man universe scripts, with plans to potentially greenlight just one or two of them moving forward, according to details reported by The Ankler . The report doesn't reveal which characters or specific premises the four projects center on, but it does name the writers currently attached to each script. Kelvin Yu, creator and showrunner of 'American Born Chinese,' is developing one of the...
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