Spider-Man skirmish between Helmer Jon Watts and Sony / Disney – Deadline



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EXCLUSIVE: As dust falls on Sony's Disney / Marvel and Kevin Feige releases Spider Man franchise, the next showdown may well be over, director Jon Watts, catapulted from Sundance's low-budget film Cop Car to the leader of the $ 880 million Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: far from home, which has just passed the movie 007 Sky Fall will become Sony's most profitable movie with $ 1.11 billion.

I am told that Watts was only linked to the Spidey franchise as a director for these two images and that he was not sure he would be leading Tom Holland in the third installment written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. They wrote the record Spider-Man: far from home.

I am told that he is courted by Marvel. It is understandable that Marvel and Feige want to keep up the pace with Watts: Feige has largely contributed to changing the career path of filmmakers who would not have been automatic choices for mega-budget superhero movies, Joe & Anthony Russo at Taika Waititi, James Gunn and Scott Derrickson. When it comes to bidding, there are deadly feelings between these studios about the Rashomon-like press stories that followed Deadline's scoop about who did what by dismantling the brilliantly orchestrated introduction to a franchise of superheroes to success. It's so bad that some people are wondering if it would even be possible to rethink things and agree on Spider Man.

About these talks that Deadline revealed Tuesday: I continue to hear from reliable sources that Feige was too busy to make more movies Spider-Man does not hold water; he loves the character and the way these films have served fans and the Marvel Universe. I continue to hear that Disney has asked for a 25% stake in which it would fund much of the film and benefit from a substantial portion of the increase in equity. This arrangement would have concerned only the photos involving Marvel & Feige. It was not an eternal affair, as the days when Sony decided many years ago to continue to be a James Bond distributor. At the time, Sony cut MGM into a co-financing relationship on images The girl with dragon tattoo and 21 Jump Street, this gave MGM the right to co-finance future payments. The Spider-Man deal was only for the photos where Marvel loaned Feige, the weight of his mark, and cross-pollination in Marvel films. Still, it was a big demand from Sony, which had obtained a relative bargain at 5% of the first gross dollar. This 25% offer lasted half a year and the conversation finally focused on the 50% co-fi share, before Disney stopped the deal.

It will be interesting to see what Watts does, but his representatives at CAA have an enviable advantage if he chooses to direct another Spider-Man, a Marvel film or a blockbuster from any other studio. Stay tuned.

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