Sony has revealed that Jamie Foxx will be reprising his role as Electro in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming 3, which comes with many questions regarding the logic of Marvel films in the future. Sony and Marvel began their complicated partnership in 2015 when they struck a deal that would see the Sony-owned Spider-Man join the MCU for five films; two solo and three team-ups. The collaboration worked, but as time has passed, more and more inconsistencies within Sony's films have threatened to break the MCU’s continuity.
The first signs of this were in Spider-Man: Homecoming, which featured a title card stating the film took place eight years after The Avengers, meaning Spider-Man’s story was happening in the same year as Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War and Black Panther. While this was retroactively fixed in Avengers: Infinity War to six years, that wasn’t all the Spider-Man films would do to throw off the timeline.
Ever since then, more unexplained anomalies have occurred. The next one was in the mid-credits scene of Spider-Man: Far From Home. J.K. Simmons’ J. Jonah Jameson is shown reporting on a large screen in downtown New York. This meant multiple things for the MCU going forward, including the big question: are audiences really meant to believe that this is the same J. Jonah Jameson from the original Spider-Man trilogy? Or was he just too perfectly cast to be played by anyone else? In addition to that, Michael Keaton, who portrayed Adrian Toomes aka Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, showed up in the Morbius trailer, a film thought only to be a part of Sony’s separate universe of Spider-Man anti-heroes and villains.
As Sony inches its universe closer and closer to the MCU with these inclusions, it puts the two studios in an interesting position. Marvel Studios is adept at producing high-quality films that consistently turn a profit whereas Sony hasn’t been as fortunate save for the financial success of Venom. Still, Sony owns Spider-Man, a highly-coveted property by Marvel Studios. An agreement was penned in 2019 to give Spider-Man one more solo adventure, but it’s hard to imagine Marvel Studios without Spider-Man, and Sony seems to know this. It wouldn’t be surprising if Sony is trying to prolong a mutually beneficial relationship with Marvel Studios even if it means breaking the MCU’s continuity.
The recent announcement of Jamie Foxx’s return to the role of Electro seems to further bolster two theories. One, that Sony is trying to merge its stable of characters with Marvel Studios, and two, that The Multiverse could be introduced in Spider-Man: Homecoming 3. This is something that many thought would happen first in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but now could be taking place a little earlier. As weird as this sounds, Sony and Marvel Studios aren’t the only ones crossing over characters from different universes. Michael Keaton is also returning as Batman in The Flash, which is set to incorporate its own multiverse. While Michael Keaton’s inclusion beyond The Flash isn't clear yet (there have been rumors of his inclusion in films like Batman Beyond), Marvel Studios and Sony have a lot more to figure out with Jamie Foxx, who still has it in his contract to appear in more Spider-Man films. If he plays a new version of Electro not connected to The Amazing Spider-Man films or actually crosses over from that universe also remains to be seen.
There is still a good amount of time for Marvel Studios and Sony to figure out the logistics of where they are going to take this next phase, but the mounting inconsistencies need to start having answers attached to them. Whether Spider-Man: Homecoming 3 ends up defying logic and including actual characters from other universes, or simply plays it off as a coincidence, it has now become a much more interesting, and potentially risky film. Hopefully, all of this will make much more sense when the movie finally releases.
- Black Widow (2021)Release date: May 07, 2021
- Eternals (2021)Release date: Nov 05, 2021
- Morbius (2021)Release date: Mar 19, 2021
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)Release date: Jun 25, 2021
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)Release date: Jul 09, 2021
- Spider-Man: Homecoming 3 (2021)Release date: Dec 17, 2021
- Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)Release date: Feb 11, 2022
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)Release date: Mar 25, 2022
- Black Panther 2 (2022)Release date: May 06, 2022
- Captain Marvel 2 (2022)Release date: Jul 08, 2022
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 (2022)Release date: Oct 07, 2022
October 05, 2020 at 03:45AM
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