Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20190605150859/@comment-29908830-20190825003445

LoveWaffle wrote: My guess is that in five years from now Sony and Disney will have worked something out to make Spider-Man: Home Again.

Look at me, being the optimist for once.

I'm gonna be even more optimistic and say that they will probably make a deal far sooner, and that we will get the next Spider-Man film by 2022 or 2023 earliest (since I've heard that Sony's contract forces them to make a film every few years or lose the rights). It's painfully obvious both companies know that no one wins in this scenario, and considering Tom Holland even went to D23 (albeit to say a quick message), these just seem like what some are calling "public negotiations".

Ironically enough though, as you pointed out the end for Far From Home is, continuity-wise, actually the perfect way to take Spidey out of the MCU before putting him back in, and since we probably won't get an Avengers movie for many more years (2024 at the earliest, if I had to guess), they do have plenty of time. Honestly, continuity is the only thing that I truly care about: you can remove Spidey from the equation (for the sake of people's jobs), but only when it's the perfect send-off; just that Far From Home is NOT that send-off, more of a "Next Time on Dragon Ball Z!" moment. In other words, once Spider-Man hangs up the mask in-universe (WHICH HE HASN'T), I say give it back to Sony until such time as they go bankrupt, get bought out, and the rights permanently revert to Marvel.

My only concern is what will happen should the third film succeed before the deal is finalized. We got this deal in the first place because Sony failed financially with TASM2 (and maybe the email leaks), so if the third film does well, chances are they'll get even more cocky and shut down the deal permanently. Therefore it's probably best to hope that the deal is brought back sooner rather than later, and like I said before, they'll probably rework the schedule accordingly so that it takes up one of the spots already laid out (which is what happened to Homecoming; I mean, that entire schedule from 2014 got completely changed).