http://variety.com/2015/film/news/details-spider-man-appear-in-sony-and-marvel-movies-1201429039/
Marvel has long wanted to put Spider-Man in its movies, but since Sony Pictures controlled the rights to the charger since 1999, the web slinger has been off limits.
Look out! Here comes the Spider Man! Spider Man has been brought back to Marvel with Sony Pictures still having distribution and creative rights to character in any stand alone films. Marvel doesn't have to pay Sony for Spidey to appear in Captain America: Civil War, but Sony does get box office revenue for any stand alone films the character appears in. That's a great deal! Despite other significant funding with companies like 20th Century Fox, Sony and Marvel appear to work together. Two big movie companies working together, sounds something that can only happen in a movie. X-Men and The Avengers are at a total loss of crossing paths so much that they cast two different actors to play Quicksilver. However, with the new arrival of Spider Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe(MCU) things can get a little tingling.
Spider Man is a big part of the Avengers, so it's finally time to take his place. The one thing that is worrisome is the origin story. Peter Parker, geeky high school kid that got bitten by a Spider and yadda yadda Uncle Ben gets shot yadda yadda Mary Jane/ Gwen Stacy yadda explosion, well you get the point. If Marvel wants to adapt Spider Man into their films, they have to change the origin story. Origin Stories have been introducing characters in the same old fashion. Dude gets powers, traumatic experience, evil bad guy, gets girl at the end. Although it is vital for the audience to be introduced, perhaps it can be re introduced in another fashion. The studio can go both ways with this. One, it can keep Peter Parker, but they will need to already establish the origin story. An already established origin story can go right into the action and can catch up with the long established stories of Captain America and Iron Man. The other way it can go is using a different character to be Spider Man, such as Miles Morales. An african american and latino young man that take up the mantle to be the web slinger. This introduces another origin story, but also exemplifies the diversity Marvel needs and mold the new Spider Man into a grittier, suitable character for a world that loves a scary pinocchio song. This gives a question that needs to be answered, How can you introduce a new character that has been already established? Hopefully Marvel and Sony will answer that eloquently.
In my opinion, I don't like Spider Man as much, but if he has the ability to surprise the new world he has just came into, then he has finally caught my attention.
I really enjoyed your post Josh, but there's a couple things I want to say that might make you rethink some of the things you said. (HUGE POSSIBLE SPOILERS SO BEWARE) part of Miles' origin story and part of the reason he was at first so compelling to many is that Peter Parker dies in the Ultimate Universe due to Miles' negligence, similar to how Peter's uncle Ben died because of Peter's negligence. This means that his origin story would have to change as well. My theory that I hope happens so much is that in Civil War, Peter Parker is introduced as Spider-man, and plays a pivotal role. Then in the next Spider-Man movie he dies and Miles' is introduced. That is if they want to introduce Miles as Spider-Man, I prefer Peter though, I grew up with him. I could talk about this for so long and all the options, but you'll have to pay me for that.
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