Sony really don't want to lose those rights to Marvel, do they?

It's a shame in a way as there's now zero chance of all Marvel series together. Between Sony and Fox the rights are tied up for a bare minimum of 15 years

Sony are doing an awesome job of killing any and all interest I ever had in the spidey verse.

I've always preferred venom to Spider-Man being honest so optimistic about his appearance this time

Venom needs quite a bit of build up regarding back story, This was the problem with Spiderman 3 they really tried to shoe horn it in and it flopped big time. Topher Grace should've featured partially in 3, turn into Venom in the end and been the big bad in a Riami/Maguire 4th movie but ah well.

I really hope they go for 616 Eddie Brock Venom and not Flash Thompson Venom or Ultimate Venom.

This and Sinister Six will hit after Amazing Spiderman 3 and before 4

Talk about Spiderman popping up in the spin-offs as well as fairly pointless chatter about a link up with the Marvel Universe which looks to be off the cards and happily to for me as the window to do that has passed in my eyes

I quite like the look of Amazing Spiderman. Nice and bold, bright and comic booky. As it should be. Venom is very 90s to be, for some reason. Probably McFarlane.

Minor updates but some key nudging and winking that Venom's enemy in this will be Carnage

According to IGN this is also still lined up at Sony. Apparently Feige will only be involved in the next solo Spiderman, after that Sony still maintains full control of the franchise only with the added bonus of the crossover elements. As most of the original plan is clearly still going ahead, it really raises questions as it feels Marvel is risking the reputation of the MCU saga somewhat now

Yep, this doesn't feel good. As someone said on Twitter (me), this feels like young George Lucas bringing in old George Lucas to make Star Wars. Sony is weak. Marvel is strong. Yes, Spider-Man is a well loved character and wouldn't it be great if he was part of the Marvel movies? But Marvel have proven that they can get along just fine without him. They have a lot less to gain here than Sony does and they risk tainting their universe with the rubbish that Sony make from here.

I guess part of it depends on the marketing. If Spider-Man has a cameo in CA3 and we know that's all it is, that could be fine. If people go into to Sony-made Spidey and Venom movies thinking that they are Marvel movies and they stink, that's a problem.

I think this is going to be a disaster. Spider-man has so much bad baggage from all the **** films that his presence to me taints the good marvel have done.

He's like poochie in the simpsons.

They're apparently taking the character young again, so whilst he'll already be operating as a lower scale Spiderman it'll mean a return to high school and Gwen.

They'll have to tread carefully as well, shoe horning OsCorp into the universe... Especially after NYs devastation in Avengers could get awkward if handled wrong

I too am not looking forward to this.

Spiderman's had 5 films now. The first one was decent for the time, in that we were still reeling from the idea that superhero movies didn't have to be generally terrible.

The sequels were poor and I couldn't even command enough interest to see the recent two.

Do we really need to see Peter Parker get bitten by a spider, beat his bully, get the girl next door...

I kinda hope they go with the new Spider Man kid - is it Miles-something? Anything to get us away from what we've already seen.

They also need to remember who Spiderman is and remember his limits. He's not invulnerable. Pretty sure the original character couldn't hold up a building or stop a train with his body.