Silk could soon be the next Marvel character to get her own TV series, Variety has learned from sources.
Variety has learned that Sony, which controls the rights to the Spider-Man universe, is developing a live-action series centered on Silk. Lauren Moon is in talks to write. Like Silk, Moon is Korean-American. Her past credits include the Freeform series “Good Trouble” and the Netflix series “Atypical.”
Phil Lord and Chris Miller are executive producing under their Lord Miller production banner along with former Sony Pictures Entertainment head Amy Pascal. Sony Pictures Television, where Lord Miller is under a rich overall deal, will produce. No network or streaming service is currently attached, but sources say Amazon is in talks to acquire the project, along with other potential Marvel series based on characters Sony controls.
Reps for Sony, Moon, Lord Miller, Pascal, and Amazon declined to comment.
It was reported in 2018 that Sony Pictures was in the early stages of development on a Silk standalone film. Later that same year, it was also reported that Sony was developing a female-led spinoff of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” that would potentially focus on Silk, Spider-Gwen, and Spider-Woman.
The character Silk’s real name is Cindy Moon, a Korean-American classmate of Peter Parker’s. She was first introduced in the comic books in “The Amazing Spider-Man #1” in 2014. Like Parker, she is bitten by a radioactive spider, which gives her the ability to move at incredible speed, shoot webs out of her fingertips, and possess an advanced Spider-Sense (known as Silk Sense). Tiffany Espensen played the character in the 2017 film “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” It is unknown at this time if she would star in the series.
Should the project move forward, which seems more than likely, it would be the latest in a growing line of Marvel live-action streaming shows. Netflix previously aired six such shows — “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones,” “Luke Cage,” “Iron Fist,” the crossover series “The Defenders,” and “The Punisher.” Hulu also previously aired the Marvel series “The Runaways.” Other past Marvel live-action shows include “Cloak & Dagger” at Freeform and “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and “Agent Carter” at ABC.
Following the overwhelming success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe under Kevin Feige, he is now overseeing the expansion of Marvel’s TV presence with a series of Disney Plus shows built around MCU characters. First up will be “The Falcon and Winter Soldier,” followed by “WandaVision.” Others on deck include “Loki” and “Hawkeye.” Shows based on “Ms. Marvel,” “She-Hulk,” and “Moon Knight” are also in the works.
When Lord & Miller’s new overall deal with Sony was announced, it was reported that they would work with the studio to develop a suite of television series based on Sony’s Marvel characters, with Silk now being the first. The deal also allows the pair to develop their own projects for network, cable and streaming platforms, as well as develop and supervise other writers’ projects. The duo previously produced the Oscar-winning animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” at Sony, for which Lord also wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay. Pascal was also a producer on that film.
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Spezialy, coming off a run as an executive producer on HBO’s Emmy-winning limited series Watchmen, has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios. Under the pact, I hear Spezialy has joined Silk, Sony Pictures Television’s upcoming live-action Marvel series, which reportedly is headed to Amazon’s Prime Video as SVOD distributor. Reps for Amazon and Sony declined comment.
I hear Spezialy will serve as executive producer/showrunner on the series alongside executive producer Lauren Moon, a writer on Sony TV’s Netflix series Atypical, who wrote the Silk TV adaptation based on the Korean-American comic book superhero, created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos.
Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse’s Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who oversee Sony’s suite of TV series based on Sony’s Universe of Marvel characters, executive produce Silk with Spider-Man franchise producer Amy Pascal.
As executive producer of another comic book TV adaptation, Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen, Spezialy shared in the show’s Outstanding Limited Series Emmy Award. He also co-created Starz’s Ash vs Evil Dead and executive produced The Leftovers, Desperate Housewives, Reaper and Dead Like Me. He is repped by Manage-ment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Silk (aka Cindy Moon) first appeared as a faceless cameo in Marvel Comics’ The Amazing Spider-Man #1 in April 2014. She was part of the new Agents of Atlas team, which debuted in a War of the Realms tie-in and later got their own five-issue limited series. A new Silk ongoing series by writer Maruene Goo and artist Takeshi Miyazawa was set to be published in July 2020 but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was released in March 2021.
The character has been portrayed by Tiffany Espensen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
FYI: MGM+ will have it for a timed exclusivity window before dropping on Prime Video in the US due to complex rights reasons
The link says "globally" but I could see that ending up being just international and only MGM+ in the US. Amazon having three services is crazy anyway.
The link says "globally" but I could see that ending up being just international and only MGM+ in the US. Amazon having three services is crazy anyway.
Deadline's article says it'll be on Prime Video internationally, MGM+ then Prime in the US
As soon as they finish postproduction on Spider-Verse, the writers strike will impose a break on their output and offer some respite. “It’ll be the first time we haven’t been in production for 13 years,” says Lord. (Animation is not covered under the WGA, which is why work on Spider-Verse continues, though it has been postproduction, not writing.) Their writers rooms shut down for a third season of The Afterparty as well as Amazon’s live-action Spider-Verse TV shows (Silk and another based on the Spider-Man Noir character). Development has paused on a number of features, too. Miller, a married father of two, plans to take his family on their first vacation in a few years, and then the two say they will be on the picket lines.
As writer-directors, they have been vocal about the need for the Directors Guild to support the Writers Guild. They see common ground, with existential issues such as AI threatening professionals in both guilds. “One of the reasons we’re out pushing so hard on these projects is it’s important for people to see how good things can be when they’re not written by a computer,” says Lord.
In a follow-up exchange, they further addressed working amid the strike, noting in a joint statement, “We’re of the opinion that when distinctively written and directed movies and TV shows succeed it helps filmmakers make the case for the commercial value of writing and directing. We want to support the finished work, to make the case to the powers that be for the value of well-written entertainment. It is good for the WGA if finished written work succeeds.”
This is a good thing, and Sony can replace them with better writers, or the writers at least make improvement after the strike is over. Seriously, Sony MCU sucks massive balls.
This is a good thing, and Sony can replace them with better writers, or the writers at least make improvement after the strike is over. Seriously, Sony MCU sucks massive balls.
Bruh, this is Lord and Millar we're talking about. Spider-Verse?
Into alone clears the festering pile of crap that was NWH.
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