He also confirmed there are plans at Sony to reboot the live-action Sonyverse/Spider-Verse world, after multiple hiccups such as “Morbius,” “Madame Web,” and “Kraven the Hunter” not exactly setting the world on fire, and reports of Sony scrapping future projects entirely. However, Rothman was vague and didn’t exactly reveal details about what that could look like (notably, “Venom” is getting a new animated film).
I mean the Venom solo film barely worked and decreased in quality as it went along. Kraven had its moments, but really wasn’t much. The rest never even had anything worth watching.
And that was with these films being largely disconnected.
A reboot doesn’t even really mean anything.
Work with Marvel Studios proper, you’ll make more money and a better product.
I agree, although I think the elephant in the room is the pressures of capitalism.
Image, for a second, if money didn’t matter. Image if the crew all divided up the earnings. There’s no investment return, regardless of performance.
What kind of movies would Sony make? How many of them?
The answer would probably be “the kind of movies people who like to make movies like to watch” and “However many they have worthwhile scripts and people for.”
The entire problem they’re trying to solve is “how do we maximize returns in a world in which audiences want artistic quality and are clearly irate with is for trying to maximize returns instead of artistic quality?”
All of this is downstream of that misalignment in priority. If the studio had the same goal as the audience, I think their product would reflect that.
I’m grateful that sometimes art gets made, but the insurable appetite for free money by the investor class really seems to be the weight that is drowning the film industry.
Venom was quite a finanical success though, wasn’t it?
It did. It’s a bit of a bummer because Venom was highly financially successful and the first film was not half bad. That films success is what likely gave all the other films a shot, and to your point the Venom films were all financially successful despite the drop in quality.
Can’t be very satisfying for Sony producers to simply offshore their work to Feige.