Spider-Man is good in threes. Tobey Maguire obtained all the best way to Spider-Man 3. The latest Spider-Man: No Way Home is an element three in Tom Holland’s trilogy. Two extra deliberate Spider-Verse movies will make three for Miles Morales. And but followers by no means obtained to see a 3rd movie in Andrew Garfield’s The Amazing Spider-Man trilogy.

The Amazing Spider-Man 3 was a movie everybody concerned had deliberate on doing after which, poof, it was gone. Loads of elements went into that, however now, resulting from latest occasions, everybody’s speaking about it once more. Could we see The Amazing Spider-Man 3? We don’t know, however right here’s every part we did know in regards to the movie that by no means occurred.

Why Is Everyone Talking About The Amazing Spider-Man 3?

In Spider-Man No Way Home, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) crack open the multiverse letting villains and heroes from different dimensions into our world. Among them are two different Spider-Men, one performed by Tobey Maguire, star of the three Sam Raimi movies launched between 2002-2007, and Andrew Garfield, star of the Marc Webb Amazing Spider-Man movies launched in 2012 and 2014. And although everybody loves all three Spider-Men, Garfield’s infectious efficiency (and emotional arc on this movie) has followers clamoring for extra.

Was The Amazing Spider-Man 3 Ever Actually Planned?

Yes, it was. Back in June 2013, nearly a 12 months earlier than the discharge of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Sony introduced launch dates for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 on June 10, 2016 and The Amazing Spider-Man 4 on May 4, 2018. They had been all in with Andrew Garfield’s character after the monetary success of the 2012 movie.

But after The Amazing Spider-Man 2 got here out and solely did okay, the plan was altered. The sequel was nonetheless going to occur, however it could be preceded by a Sinister Six film. The Sinister Six launch date was introduced for November 11, 2016 with The Amazing Spider-Man 3 to comply with in 2018.

Why Didn’t The Amazing Spider-Man 3 Happen?

This is the true query, isn’t it? Well, it’s a protracted story however we’ll try to maintain it tight. Don’t neglect that as all of this Andrew Garfield/Marc Webb/Sinister Six stuff is occurring at Sony Pictures between 2012 and 2014, over at Marvel Studios Kevin Feige and his group are releasing hit after hit that includes lesser recognized Marvel characters, and constructing an enormous Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was one thing Sony needed to do themselves, which is why The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is affected by villains and hints to different characters. But that lack of focus within the film harm its high quality, which result in a smaller field workplace and diminished confidence within the character and path he was taking. That’s one side.

Then, in late 2014, there was the Sony hack. This put your complete firm into disarray with secrets and techniques revealed, individuals dropping their jobs, and all types of chaos. Around this time, studio head Amy Pascal, a producer on all of the Spider-Man movies, requested Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige for assist with the character. Feige tells her the only way he can help is that if Marvel takes over management, and hits her with an concept: “What if Tony Stark made Peter’s suit?” She’s offered. The studios make a deal.

So you’ve gotten a studio dropping confidence in a personality, whereas one other studio with an unimaginable monitor document presents to assist, after which the added wildness of the hack throwing doubt on every part. Couple that with one of many writers, Roberto Orci, leaving the franchise, and Sony realizes it was time to press reset.

When Did Everyone Know The Amazing Spider-Man 3 Was Dead?

It’s laborious to say precisely when principals like Andrew Garfield or Marc Webb knew, however for the remainder of us, it was in all probability on June 23, 2015, when Sony introduced that Tom Holland could be taking part in Spider-Man in a brand new film directed by Jon Watts. He first appeared in Captain America: Civil War in April 2016, reportedly saving your complete film.

A couple of months after Holland was forged, Garfield gave a touching interview the place he talked about all of the remorse and ache taking part in Spider-Man gave him. “And I wanted to… not to say that I needed to rescue those films, but I couldn’t make them as deep and soulful and… life-giving as I could ever dream,” he stated. “And I’m never gonna be able to do that, with any film. It was especially difficult in that situation because… well, just because. And it was especially important because that character has always meant so much to me.”

Do We Know What The Amazing Spider-Man 3 Was Going to Be About?

Actually, we form of do. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 planted roots for the Sinister Six to assemble and the plan was for Spidey to take them on. That plan obtained altered barely, when a full Sinister Six film was deliberate to launch earlier than Amazing Spider-Man 3 however nonetheless, it appeared like the fundamental concept. Introduce Sinister Six in a single film, usher in Spider-Man to cease them within the subsequent. Marc Webb defined in 2017 that Norman Osborn (Chris Cooper) would have lead the group which might have featured Vulture and, one would guess, Paul Giamatti’s Rhino on the very least. Venom was additionally in discussions. So Amazing Spider-Man 3 would have been Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man preventing the Sinister Six.

Peter was nearly absolutely additionally going to cope with the dying of Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) and that might have occurred with one or two different women in his life. Shailene Woodley was going to play Mary Jane Watson in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, nonetheless the actress’ scenes had been reduce, so there was an opportunity she might come again (However, on the time she wasn’t going to have the ability to reprise the function, resulting from commitments within the Divergent sequence). Amazing Spider-Man 2 additionally launched Felicity Jones as grasp thief Black Cat, and he or she might have additionally returned as effectively. At the time she stated she’d come again if requested.

Will a New Version of The Amazing Spider-Man 3 Happen?

That’s the large query on everybody’s lips in the meanwhile however nobody is speaking, in all probability as a result of nobody truly is aware of. The document setting launch of Spider-Man: No Way Home has actually made it clear to Sony and Marvel that the general public is hungry for the character, and there’s a lot extra already coming. Morbius will probably be right here in a couple of months. A Kraven the Hunter film is within the works. Not to say two animated Spider-Verse films and early talks about a brand new Tom Holland movie that picks up the place No Way Home left off. On prime of all that, is there even room for an additional live-action Spider-Man? If Spider-Man: No Way Home advised us something, it’s the extra Spider-People, the higher.

Do you suppose we’ll get Andrew Garfield again in a correct Amazing Spider-Man 3? Could he simply reappear in one other supporting function? Tell us your ideas beneath.

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