

The answer that the book nonchalantly reveals are those in which Peter Parker was still in high school and experiencing “growing pains.”

In those fateful discussions, producers and execs moved past just whether they could make a deal happen and began considering what it would look like? If Marvel Studios could conceivably get Sony to agree to share the Spider-Man character for a five-picture deal, what type of Spider-Man stories was Marvel interested in telling? No one else at Marvel Studios was told about what they were doing, just that it was a ‘get-together.’” “Every executive producer at Marvel Studios had to be part of a secret, two-day long, off-site retreat, held in a rented hotel space in Santa Monica. “With no time to spare, Feige announced an ‘all hands on deck’ situation,” said Bennett and Terry’s book. In fact, we’re still learning just how strong a hand he played in shaping the direction of the Spider-Man franchise at Sony, including when Marvel Studios decided not to continue on with Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man 3 or any other Marvel Studios production.Īs revealed in The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry, as per The Direct, Feige and the top brass at Marvel Studios began speculating on what Peter Parker would look like in the MCU (and implicitly why it couldn’t be the one then played by Garfield) before they ever approached Sony about making a deal that would bring Spidey into the MCU.

But also like those aforementioned concepts, there was a moment when it seemed like a risk-a gamble unlikely to happen until Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige put a lot of thought into it. as Iron Man or Baby Groot being adorable.

It’s an idea that fans can now happily take for granted, like Robert Downey Jr. Just imagine: Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
