The Glorious Trainwreck: How Sony Made a Spider-Man Universe Without Spider-Man And Why It Crashed !!
A Universe Built on Questionable Decisions Picture this: You're Sony Pictures, sitting on the movie rights to one of the most beloved superheroes of all time, Spider-Man. You've seen Marvel Studios turn their comic book properties into a money-printing machine called the MCU. You've got dollar signs in your eyes. So naturally, you think, "Let's make a cinematic universe based on Spider-Man characters... but without Spider-Man!" Yes, you read that right. Sony's brilliant plan was to create the Sony Spider-Man Universe (SSU), a franchise that carries Spider-Man's name but features exactly zero appearances by the actual web-slinger. It's like opening a restaurant called "Best Pizza in Town" that exclusively serves salads. And somehow, they were shocked when people didn't show up. From 2018 to 2024, Sony blessed (or cursed?) us with six films in this universe: the Venom trilogy, Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter. With...