Kevin Feige Explains Marvel's Role In Sony's Spider-Man Reboot

With Spider-Man set to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War, the next step will be for the new Peter Parker to take center stage in his own solo movie. With the new deal between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios in effect, what role will Marvel play in crafting the new Spider-Man movie franchise?

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige tells Collider the two studios are working very closely together, with Marvel handling being hand-on with the creative side of things, while Sony maintains control at a producer level.

"We're working very much [together]. It is a— I don't know exactly what the credits will be, but it is a Sony Pictures production of a Marvel Studios film. The agreement was that it is very much a Sony Pictures movie. Amy Pascal is co-producing it with us and [Sony Chairman] Tom Rothman is leading the charge for Sony and that we are the creative producers. We are the ones hiring the actor, introducing him in this film, and then working right now on the script and soon to be shooting the actual Spidey film."

Feige also reiterated that the new Spider-Man movie will not be an origin story.

"We spend a lot of time as we work on these movies saying 'Don't take it for granted that the audience saw the other movies or that the audience is as versed in the comic books as we are.' We take great pains to give you everything you need to know within the context of whatever movie you're actually watching. However, we did say, if it's safe to assume anything, it's safe to assume that everybody knows how Spider-Man became Spider-Man and what that backstory was. We've seen it a number of times now, it's its own well-known mythology. So we said, let's reveal that there's been a Spider-Man in the MCU and we meet him, as you see, in [Civil War]."

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