Spider-Man Spinoff- 'Silver Sable and Black Cat' in the Works

[Darth Marcus]

Source: Deadline

Gina Prince-Bythewood Set To Direct Spider-Man-Spun ‘Silver & Black’
by Mike Fleming Jr on May 25, 2017

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is setting Gina Prince-Bythewood to direct Silver & Black, the film that is based on Silver Sable & Black Cat (aka Felicia Hardy) characters from Sony’s Marvel Universe revolving around its signature hero Spider-Man. Prince-Bythewood just directed the pilot for Marvel’s upcoming Cloak & Dagger series on Freeform and completed the first season of Shots Fired, the drama she created with husband Reggie Rock Bythewood. That season-ender aired Wednesday on Fox. She will rewrite the Silver & Black script originated by Thor: The Dark World scribe Christopher Yost. Matt Tolmach and Amy Pascal are producing, and Columbia Pictures execs Palak Patel and Eric Fineman are overseeing.

Silver Sable is a mercenary who runs a company that hunts war criminals while Black Cat is an acrobatic cat burglar (real name Felicia Hardy), who had a tangled romantic relationship with the webslinger in the Spider-Man comics. Both were antagonists and allies to Spider-Man. This film will cast up and is meant to follow Venom, the Spider-Man universe expansion film that will star Tom Hardy with Zombieland’s Ruben Fleischer directing. Spider-Man: Homecoming, the Jon Watts-directed film that stars Tom Holland as high school student Peter Parker and his superhero alter ego, bows July 7.

On the feature front, Prince-Bythewood has directed and written Beyond The Lights, Love & Basketball and The Secret Life of Bees, and she becomes the latest female filmmaker to be set to direct a superhero film, a trend that started with Patty Jenkins helming Wonder Woman, which Warner Bros/DC opens June 2. Sony separately this week dated two other films directed by women, the Michelle MacLaren-directed The Nightingale and the Elizabeth Banks-directed Charlie’s Angels, right after the studio set Catherine Hardwicke for the Gina Rodriguez-starrer Miss Bala. Barbie will also be directed by a woman, and the studio has Lucia Aniello directing Rough Night, its first R-rated comedy in two decades directed by a female. CAA reps Prince-Bythewood.

[imsounoriginal]

Not familiar with her work but happy to see more female voices in the CBM game.

[CyberpunkCentral]

When was Silver and Black ever a thing in the comics?

[imsounoriginal]

You of all people should know Sony couldn't care less about the comics lol

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by CyberpunkCentral

When was Silver and Black ever a thing in the comics?

Never. I do not think they have ever really interacted.

[ArrestedDevelopment]

Holy shit, is Sony desperate or what lmao.

[Darth Marcus]

Sony's reaction when you ask them if they know what "comic books" are:

[CyberpunkCentral]

Does Sony think that The Avengers is just something that Marvel created in 2012? There are decades and decades of source material to adapt from to the MCU. These concepts are not original. They are taken straight from the comics (Civil War, Infinity War, The Winter Soldier, etc). But Silver and Black have no source material. So what, Sony is just going to go with it and make things up as they go along?

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by CyberpunkCentral

Does Sony think that The Avengers is just something that Marvel created in 2012? There are decades and decades of source material to adapt from to the MCU. These concepts are not original. They are taken straight from the comics (Civil War, Infinity War, The Winter Soldier, etc). But Silver and Black have no source material. So what, Sony is just going to go with it and make things up as they go along?

They probably have a female buddy movie they are going to copy and replace Silver Sable and Black Cats names into.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Like what the hell... Sony, if you want to make a spider-man universe of films... little spoiler here buds, but uh... just adapt the Spider-verse. Stop making up these dumb movies no one wants to see.

[Mike1981]

I'm strangely curious about this.

For some reason I loved the Silver Sable comic when I was a kid, so nostalgia rules the day.

[CyberpunkCentral]

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/spide...acters-a151447

Looks like Marvel won't have any Spider-Man supporting characters left to use in the MCU.

[TommySyk]

I don't get this. At all.

If Sony really wants to make their own Spidey film, just make a Spider-Gwen film and drop the whole "side character universe" bullsh*t.

Spider-Gwen is pretty popular nowadays, so why not just make a stand-alone movie out of that and be done with it?

[Mike1981]

Originally Posted by TommySyk

I don't get this. At all.

If Sony really wants to make their own Spidey film, just make a Spider-Gwen film and drop the whole "side character universe" bullsh*t.

Spider-Gwen is pretty popular nowadays, so why not just make a stand-alone movie out of that and be done with it?

Spider Gwen uses so many alternate versions of core Spider-Man characters, it's probably too tricky to navigate.

[TommySyk]

Originally Posted by Mike1981

Spider Gwen uses so many alternate versions of core Spider-Man characters, it's probably too tricky to navigate.

Nah, just make it distinct enough that general audiences can look at it and separate it from every other Spidey screen incarnation.

[Darkstream]

Forget Spider-Gwen

Give us Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman.

[puddy77]

I guess this isn't cancelled yet, but could possible become a series: https://theplaylist.net/silver-black...sney-20200427/

[CyberpunkCentral]

*Sigh*. This idea is so unnecessary. This isn't even a thing in the comics.

[CyberpunkCentral]

Looks like Silver Sable got fired.