When it comes to straightforward Spider-Man movies, Sony Pictures has been knocking it out of the park in recent years with the Tom Holland-led MCU-set adventures and the animated Spider-Verse film series. The Spider-Man-adjacent movies, on the other hand, have largely failed to impress ever since Venom launched got that cinematic ball rolling in 2018. Now Sony chairman and CEO Tom Rothman has confirmed that Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is being rebooted, and I hope this new iteration of the franchise takes away one big lesson from its predecessor’s failure.
Before I get into that, let’s first talk about what Rothman specifically said. While appearing on The Town with Matthew Belloni, the Sony boss confirmed to the podcast’s title host that the “larger Spider-Verse” is not dead and that it will be retuned to at some point. However, it will be a “fresh reboot” with “new people,” and Rothman later added:
