Olivia Wilde Will Direct a Marvel Sony Film
By George Robbins
One of the most prominent film franchises over the past few years have been the ones related to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU. The MCU is a vast, expansive shared universe that gives us a good look at the lives and trials that a large number of Marvel Comic book heroes live through. Many prominent heroes have made themselves a part of the MCU over the years and we have tons of spin-off media to add to that. When Disney obtained Marvel, a blank check was essentially given to the MCU directors to make the incredible films that they should be capable of making. This made the quality of every MCU film incredible even really by the standards that have been set in today’s world in VFX.
Like previously stated, the MCU is vast and contains a lot of different characters through which we experience a lot of different story arcs. The movies are unique and due to the work put into them by Marvel Studios, the movies end up turning out great. This process of film making can be a bit upended though by the countless deals in place that allow the films the possibility of being made. One of the most important of those deals is the one that Disney has in place with Sony so that they could have One of the most important Marvel characters appear in their film, Spider-Man. Sony has had the rights to the IP for a very long time now and they have no plans to give that up any time soon.
‘Spider-Man‘ was one of the most important movies of its time period because it was considered one of the more modern day hero movies. It was the movie that lit the flame under fans that allowed the Marvel Studios films to do so well. Not to take away from the achievements of those films, but ‘Spider-Man’ could easily be seen as the movie/character that helped start the trend. While the MCU continued on, the Spider-Man IP stagnated after a failed reboot of the character until he was needed as an essential character for a storyline. The Civil War storyline in the comics was a very important moment in Marvel Comics history and Spider-Man had a part to play in it. This meant that Disney had to make a deal with Sony for the use of their IP in the MCU films.
Although Sony may have allowed them to use the character, they still have the rights to the character and any characters related to him. This isn’t an issue as it allows for the creation of other films related to Spider-Man, but they aren’t really tied to the MCU, at least not yet. The hope of Sony is to have more of their character IP’s to become a part of the MCU as well. They are trying to continue the trend of making Spider-Man related movies with their upcoming film ‘Morbius‘ as well as the sequel to their first ‘Venom’ film. Now they have Olivia Wilde coming in to be the director of some new Spider-Man related film. What people are hoping will happen from this is that she will be working on some new live-action film that focuses on the character Spider-Woman.