The inside story of Spider-Man’s dramatic return to the MCU has been revealed. Inevitably, it was left up to Tom Holland to play the role of real-life superhero to reconnect Sony and Marvel in a deal that was, according to reports, “100 percent dead” before the British actor stepped in.
THR states that a post-D23 meeting with Sony film chairman Tom Rothman helped move things forward. In a week that Holland described as “crazy,” he also reached out directly to Disney CEO Bob Iger.
While details haven’t surfaced about what exactly Holland said in either interaction, his timely intervention has seemingly pulled back Sony and Marvel from the brink of a complete collapse in negotiations.
It’s worth noting Holland holds considerable sway at Sony and Marvel, despite his relatively young age. Alongside Spider-Man 3, he’s also set to appear in a future (unknown) Marvel movie, Sony’s Spider-Man cinematic universe, and an Uncharted movie – which has recently seen its sixth director join the project.
From there, the two parties eventually thrashed out a deal – one that saw Disney take 25 percent of all profits on 2021’s Spider-Man 3 as well as also pitching in for a quarter of the threequel’s budget.
Now that the tangled web of Spider-Man’s cinematic future has been unravelled, it’s left to Holland to take the lead – but this time in the Big Apple instead of boardrooms.
