‘Silver & Black’: A Spin-Off We Will Not Get to See
By George Robbins
The movie industry has been abuzz as of late with so much currently going on in the world and there being such a shortage of time and hands. This has resulted in numerous productions having no choice but to shut down until the studio knows that no one is going to spread the virus again. There have already been countless delays and some projects have just straight up been abandoned. Some of the projects that are resuming are going to have an even harder time going forward due to the shut downs in California that we are currently seeing. Although all of the news coming out of Hollywood at the moment isn’t all terrible because there have been announcements about new projects and movies have announced that they have moved forward with production again.
That being said, much of the news coming out of many studios is still bad news for the most part and it is a lot for us to take in from the outside perspective. For instance, many studios as of late have had to further delay their movies due to the strong resurgence in Covid-19 cases. There are many films that were meant to release at some point later this year, but it now seems that they have all been pushed into next year. This has made it all the more difficult for most theaters to reopen because they have been chasing down movie releases so that they will have a good reason to open their doors. This is why, despite announcing that they would have all been opened by mid-July, the movie theater chains Regal, Cinemark, and AMC have decided to stay closed until the end of July.
Of course, the delays of films and the reopening of theaters is not the only bad news and, as mentioned before, announcements about canceled projects have been made. Among those canceled projects is the interesting but scrapped idea for a movie called ‘Silver & Black.’ The titular characters being the anti-heroes Silver Sable and Black Cat who usually contend with Spider-Man. These characters are well-known nowadays but they have never actually been put on the big screen in any kind of live-action format. They would have been put on the big screen as a part of the plan by Sony for a number of Spider-Man spin-offs to be made showing the backstories of various characters from the universe. This is just a pipe dream at this point now unfortunately.
The film was in development for years before it was eventually canceled recently and for the longest time, fans were wondering if they would get to see the film. Director Gina Prince-Bythewood was attached to the project, but after a number of script rewrites that resulted in nothing actually getting done, the project was scrapped. It was determined that instead of making a joint film, the characters will instead get films of their own. So while it would have been interesting if the joint film was made, there is still going to be something for us to watch for the characters. It seems like these films will still be a ways off, but we will eventually get to see a few new spin-offs for characters that have never had live-action portrayals before.