Aunt May - Sony Working on Spider-Man Spin-Off Based Around Young Aunt May

[Walts Ghost]

EXCLUSIVE: Sony's Now Working on a Spider-Man-Less Aunt May Movie

Here comes Trouble, and I might mean that literally.

It’s been obvious from the various and absolutely crazy rumors about upcoming Spider-Man movies that Sony is struggling to find a direction for the franchise and the crazier the rumors get the more it seems like they’d rather milk the property from every single angle rather than give the main character back to Marvel. What started as rumors of villain-centric series, The Sinister Six and Venom, has been transformed by the increasing chorus of disappointed sighs from Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Venom: Carnage and “a female lead Spider-Man movie” that might be a crazy movie codenamed Glass Ceiling that features female Spider-Man Universe characters that have never been team-up before in history, let alone on screen.

Now, it’s my solemn duty to put another wild Sony thrashing Spider-Movie on the pile of rumored Spider-Man movies. I was told by the Latino Review editorial brain-trust that this is completely true: Sony is pursuing an Aunt May movie.

Yes, an Aunt May movie. A movie about Aunt May as a youth, before she was shouldered with the responsibility of raising Peter Parker. The target mood is some sort of espionage story in the vein of AMC’s Mad Men, which sounds like a way of saying “classier Agent Carter” without name-dropping Marvel’s upcoming series.

But the whole point here is that I NOT mention Marvel, because Sony isn’t giving up the Spider-Verse before they make an attempt at a movie based on the completely fabricated past of May Parker. Well, the espionage part is fabricated.

Marvel, sorry for the name drop Sony, released a Mark Millar-penned romance mini-series in 2003 called Trouble that they thought would be the new origin of Spider-Man. It featured teenage versions of Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Richard and Mary Parker. Through a convoluted series of events, May gets teen-pregnant by Richard but gave up baby Peter to Mary who takes the secret of Peter’s true parentage to her grave.

Spider-Man fans were not happy and the story didn’t sell too well, so that was the end of any attempts to focus on young Aunt May and thereby Spider-Man’s origin reverted back to not-being-the-child-of-Aunt-May.

It seems odd that Sony would give this a try as a way to reboot Spider-Man like Trouble attempted, but using Aunt May as a Agent Peggy Carter replacement character might not have the emotional resonance that Carter has. I’d imagine it’s hard enough to make a successful period, female-lead, espionage thriller regardless of the main character’s future interactions with superheroes. I can’t imagine why Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, keepers of the Spider-Franchise, think that this is easier than Amazing Spider-Man 3. They’d be the two in charge of this endeavor and it seems unnecessary at best and disastrous at worst.

But that’s what we hear is really happening: Aunt May movie.

Latino Review

[jscoggins]

[DisneyBlu]

I've read Trouble. To this day, I wish I never read Trouble.

It's seriously about Aunt May's... love life.

This movie won't happen. And if it's true, if Sony is even considering it, they should be embarrassed. This is rock bottom and pure desperation.

[Mandalorian]

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Working on an Origin Story for the Radioactive Spider, Flash Thompson, The Osborns' Butler, and Every Other Charatcer You Don't Care About

[Astro Zombie]

[Comicman494]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

I pulled out my phone, went to this forum on safari just so I could save this to my keyboard using Riffsy. Thank you.

[DisneyBlu]

Originally Posted by Mandalorian

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Working on an Origin Story for the Radioactive Spider, Flash Thompson, The Osborns' Butler, and Every Other Charatcer You Don't Care About

Sony is making a movie about that guy who got his pizza stolen in Spider-Man 2. They think it has real franchise potential, with the spinoff featuring the "he stole that guy's pizza!" guy.

[Comicman494]

The other day I made a forum for the Animal Crackers movie coming out, and I wish I was reading a forum for the Pantry Snacks Cinematic Universe more than I do this Aunt May movie.

[Al_The_Strange]

Oh, this is the greatest news since Sony announced that Robin Hood cinematic universe. I can see it now, the epic line-up of the Aunt May Origins and the Chronicles of Friar Tuck back to back!

[Blue Bull]

This has to be a joke. Then again I do hope its true so Sony can totally crash dive and sell Spideys rights back to Marvel. I mean why not work like a price and then some sort of distribution deal. I mean what goes on in those Sony board room meeting.

[aiman04]

EXCLUSIVE: Disney's Now Working on a Force-less Aunt Beru Movie

[Walts Ghost]

Sony is just a mess...They're continuing to crash and burn at every turn. It's frustrating seeing such a great property being mishandled...

[Comicman494]

Originally Posted by Walts Ghost

Sony is just a mess...They're continuing to crash and burn at every turn. It's frustrating seeing such a great property being mishandled...

Spider-Man is everything to me, truly. He represent so much. And as someone who genuinely loved TASM2, despite itself…I just…

Sony. Wat r u doin. Sony. Stahp.

[DisneyBlu]

Originally Posted by Walts Ghost

Sony is just a mess...They're continuing to crash and burn at every turn. It's frustrating seeing such a great property being mishandled...

Sony has the screen rights to a character who, for the past 52 years, has consistently been one of the top three most popular superheroes of all time.

Sony decides to utilize that property by making a film about that superhero's aunt.

Originally Posted by Comicman494

Spider-Man is everything to me, truly. He represent so much. And as someone who genuinely loved TASM2, despite itself…I just…

Sony. Wat r u doin. Sony. Stahp.

He's my favorite too, and means a lot to me. I want Disney/Marvel to have him, so badly. And that's from someone who liked both the Amazing Spider-Man movies. But those movies could have been better, and Marvel would make the perfect Spider-Man movies, I know it. Sony just doesn't know what they're doing.

[Walts Ghost]

Originally Posted by Comicman494

Spider-Man is everything to me, truly. He represent so much. And as someone who genuinely loved TASM2, despite itself…I just…

Sony. Wat r u doin. Sony. Stahp.

It's not just this either. Their Robin Hood cinematic universe is a joke too. The company has got to get their crap together and right the sinking ship...

[Comicman494]

Originally Posted by Walts Ghost

It's not just this either. Their Robin Hood cinematic universe is a joke too. The company has got to get their crap together and right the sinking ship...

Oh tell me about it. I'd love nothing more than for them to stop all this franchise forcing and just focus on churning out those brilliant Jump Street ideas 2 teased. We could easily get one a year!

[DisneyBlu]

Sony is so desperate, Uncle Ben's movie will be up next.

Not Peter's Uncle Ben, the rice.

[Agent Bond]

It's gonna put some butts in the seats!

[Elandyll]

Originally Posted by Walts Ghost

Latino Review

And by that I mean latinoreview.
This is just way beyond stupid. Probably just some vague brainstorming idea that was never meant to be an actual concept.

[DanTheMan]