**Spoilers ahead for Spider-Man: No Way Home**īut now that Garfield’s making headlines once again, sharing some fun screen time with Holland in Spider-Man: No Way Home, we can’t help but wonder: What kind of Spider-Man stories did Sony leave lying on the table when it made the big pivot away from The Amazing Spider-Man and toward the MCU? Since we never got a third (and fourth) Amazing Spider-Man movie, there’s no way to know for certain.
When data hackers targeted Sony Pictures in late 2014 and exposed a bunch of confidential info on upcoming movies, Sony finally decided to hang up Garfield’s Spidey suit - seemingly for good. Sony’s 2015 deal to bring Spidey into the MCU fold forever changed the course of Marvel movies far beyond the new direction the web-slinger took from previous Spider-Man films, but it also effectively brought The Amazing Spider-Man series, only midway through its planned four-movie run, to an unceremonious and abrupt halt.ĭirector Marc Webb and star Andrew Garfield’s collaborative take on Peter Parker was only just getting warmed up when The Amazing Spider-Man 2 closed things out in 2014, teeing up a bunch of future Marvel character introductions and comic book-based events that, sadly, never got the chance to grow into the full-scale Spidey franchise that Sony originally had planned. Even with an entire Spider-Verse at our disposal, it’s hard to envision Spider-Man in the movies these days without the anchoring presence of Tom Holland.