Roberto Orci talks 'The Amazing Spider-Man 3' departure and the franchise's future

After working together on the Star Trek and Transformers franchises (and most recently The Amazing Spider-Man 2), writing team Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman recently revealed they were parting ways.

This obviously led to a lot of speculation about The Amazing Spider-Man 3 as they were previously attached to write that movie as well, but Orci has now confirmed that he is, “not officially involved in it.” That’s not too surprising, especially as he’s circling Star Trek 3 and Kurtzman is still attached to Venom.

However, the most interesting part about this interview is the fact that Orci strongly hinted that Sony have no firm plans in place for The Amazing Spider-Man franchise, despite the fact that a third movie should be on the way and that there has been a lot of talk about Sinister Six and Venom being released soon.

“I don’t know what their plans are for that franchise. I don’t ever want to say never, but we have to figure out what their scheduling is in terms of when they want each movie. I’ve read probably as much as anyone else. There’s a love for the Sinister Six, the idea of Venom — there’s an idea of Spider-Man’s going to be one of these characters that’s part of our business. He’s such a popular character. Spider-Man’s not going to go away any time soon. When it all happens and how and all that has yet to be determined.”

It seems unlikely, but could the disappointing critical and commercial response to The Amazing Spider-Man 3 – the studio were hoping for a gross of $1 billion worldwide – have led to Sony rethinking their plans for the franchise?

The studio got pretty far along with Spider-Man 4 before deciding to reboot, and after a string of big budget flops and some well-known financing issues, could Sony decide to take Spidey in a different direction? Probably not, and if anything, they’re likely just looking at some hiring new writers, cutting costs (The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s budget was well over $250 million) and a new release schedule.

What do you guys think?

SOURCE: IGN

Fares Mhaya

July 11, 2014

Sony, do the right thing and give Spider-Man back to Marvel Studios before the current Avengers storyline in the MCU comes to an end. If you do that you will have what’s more important than money….our respect and gratitude.
1. Joseph Waters
  
  July 11, 2014
  
  And why would they want to let go of their biggest money making franchise?
  1. Fares Mhaya
    
    July 11, 2014
    
    I know, I know…. I want sinister six and venom. But a man can dream for something better, can’t he?
Fandom Open Forum Group on FB

July 11, 2014

blame it on the WRONG release date. with only 1# week at the boxoffice, hard to get 1 B dollars….

blame it on american boxoffice for most movies only make around 200 M in america, it is up to the world to make the rest. so with 250 M peeps leaving in usa, i think movies should do alot better then they are. but it seems ALOT americans never watch movies… GOTG, TMNT, EX3 and Sin City 2 all face the same dilemma NEXT month…
1. Patrick Crumlish
  
  July 13, 2014
  
  Or that the film was rubbish. THAT could have been a problem.
  1. Samuel Arnold
    
    December 15, 2014
    
    nah, i have been a spidey fan all my life….. other than killing off gwen stacy too early in the franchise and the over abundance of villians in such a short movie, it was the best one. If the goblin had more of a role throughout the movie than it would have been different.. but he is peter’s arch enemy and barely had anything in it….if they was going to do that they should have used him as the last villian instead of rhino lame ass…
    
    but i feel they need to go ahead and share spidey with marvel before the whole avengers thing die off, cause honestly he was my favorite on the team, only person with a mouth as slick as tony stark
John

July 12, 2014

Sony will never give up Spider-Man. They bought the rights fair and square in the 90s. ASM2 still made over $700 million worldwide, but studio heads are wrong to consider every major franchise entry that doesn’t cross the $1 Billion mark a failure. Only EIGHTEEN movies have ever done this, but since many of them are fairly recent the big bosses think their production could be the next one. I thought ASM2 was quite good, but the ending was a huge downer and that could drive people away from seeing the next installment. I hope Sony stays on track and gets part 3 out by 2016 – if they don’t it will probably be the end of the current franchise. Do we really want another reboot so soon?
1. Jay Richardson
  
  July 16, 2014
  
  It is a failure. Studios only take about half the box office numbers, the rest goes to the movie theaters. The movie cost more than 250 million to make that doesn’t include the promotion cost. So Sony didn’t lose money, but they didn’t profit from it either; that’s why their goal was 1 billion.
Andrew DiNanno

July 14, 2014

Rebooting Spider-Man in the first place was a shakey idea a best. Moviegoers are tired of the wall crawler sadly. Sony was just trying to hold on to a cash cow that is no longer milking as much money as it used to. Marvel was able to keep the character fresh with Miles Morales and Spider-Ock but Sony seems too stubborn to do something like that. Well, if they still want to keep the rights Sony should consider replacing Peter Parker with someone like Miles but it doesn’t seem like they want to even make another Spider-Man movie anymore.
Chris Kasongo

July 18, 2014

Is it just me or why doesn´t Marvel dare to pull out these very nasty Characters to the big screen ?Like Red Skull´s daughter – Sin or Bushwacker.Through the years Marvel got really a rated in Comics.I´m sure a lot of Fans out there are waiting for this Transition on the big screen

Spider-Man News

Roberto Orci talks 'The Amazing Spider-Man 3' departure and the franchise's future

Comments

Browse By Topic

Browse By Year

About