How Are Marvel Characters Divided Between Three Cinematic Universes? Producer Explains!
Amy Pascal, a former chief who also serves as the executive producer on Sony/Marvel and Sony Spider-Man projects has quite a simple view of how three film iterations of the same character are currently operating on film. In an interview recently, Pascal revealed that all three universes are different and have to work in a way that compliments one another. This way, the Spider-Verse films can easily co-exist with the multiverse being currently created by Marvel, as well as the Sony universe of Marvel characters, already seen in films like Venom and the forthcoming Morbius. She acknowledges it as a balancing act, but it’s more about the creative team being respectful to each other.
Tom Holland will continue as Spider-Man after No Way Home
It was revealed earlier by Pascal that Tom Holland will continue to stick as Spider-Man after No Way Home, and that, Sony has a trilogy planned after the film. This may also see some crossovers that fans have been anticipating since long since the Marvel multiverse, the Spider-verse multiverse, and the Sony universe which has Venom has a lot of connective angles and interrelated characters.
“Well, there’s the Marvel Universe, which is one container, and then there’s the Spider-Verse movies, which are different, and then there’s the other universe where the Sony characters are in,” Pascal explained. “We all are very respectful of each other and work together and make sure that we’re only being additive.”
Multiverse has been around since 1961
Multiverse and its storytelling have been around since 1961, with “The Flash of Two Worlds” by Carmine Infantino and Garner Fox, but we haven’t seen it much in live-action until recently. It has the feeling of harder science and fiction than most superhero films, and for many years, Hollywood thought fans might not buy it. However, the popularity of The Flash which used the multiverse successfully in 2015, and Into the Spider-Verse in 2018 went on to prove this wrong.
After the events of Endgame, What If…? and Loki, the multiverse in Marvel seems to be expanding more than ever which has many fans wondering if they’ll get to see Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men with Holland in No Way Home. After the success enjoyed by Into the Spider-Verse commercially, Marvel has an easy way, to begin with exploring its own Infinite Earth.
Starring Tom Holland, Jacob Batalon, Zendaya, Jamie Foxx, Marisa Tomei, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Alfred Molina, Sony and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home will open in theaters on 17th December.
