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 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.