Sony is continuing to build out its own Spider-Man universe first with the two “Venom” films, then “Morbius,” and shortly with a very busy 2024 as both the already shot “Kraven the Hunter” and “Madame Web” are coming.
A third “Venom” was also scheduled for July 2024 but had to halt production due to the actor’s strikes. That’s expected to resume once that strikes ends though it’s probably going to have to move due to the delay.
But where do they go after that? Multiple projects are in development, though a planned “El Muerto” film has seemingly stalled. Another project that came up at one point a few years back was “Silver & Black,” a movie focused on villains Black Cat and Silver Sable.
That project was then split into separate solo films with the characters, at which time writer/director Lindsey Anderson Beer came onboard to write the “Silver Sable” solo movie.
Asked this week by ComicBook.com about where it now stands a few years later, she says as far as she’s aware the studio has effectively abandoned their plans for it:
“It was something that Sony was looking at and then, as far as I know, is not currently developing. I had to hop off that to another project at the time. I was only on it as — people hire writers as, it’s called a ‘weekly,’ I was helping them out. But yeah, I’m not sure.”
In fact, the last report on either of the films came way back in early 2020, pre-pandemic, when filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood was attached as a producer and suggested the limited series idea. At the time she told THR part of the problem is the studio was uncertain of its approach:
“I really love that project, and I do hope it can still happen in some way. It keeps going through different thoughts. First, it was going to be the two of them, and then the decision was made to separate the two … Now, there’s a thought of, ‘Hey, maybe we put it on Disney+ as a limited series,’ but I loved it more as a film with the two of them. So, my hope is that one day it can still happen.”
From the sounds of it though, there’s been no progress since so the chances of it happening are incredibly slim.
Anderson Beer makes her directorial debut with “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines” which hits Paramount+ on October 6th.
