Amy Pascal Sacked

Amy Pascal is out at Sony.

If the Sony leaks were real (and no one made any real effort to play that part down) then Pascal was one of the main road blocks for Marvel sub-leasing Spider-Man into the MCU.

What does her departure mean? Well, hopefully, talks will resume with Marvel to get the webslinger into their Cinematic Universe.

It really would be a win-win proposition after the MISERABLE last outing for the character. Reports indicated that there was an 80/20 deal on the table for Marvel to produce/write/inform the new direction for the character in at least one movie and several MCU appearances. Reportedly it would have also meant a recasting of the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

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For Marvel it would be a win, simply because of another major face being on the landscape in their Cinematic Universe. Plus Sony sold the merchandising rights to Spider-Man a couple years ago and guess who bought them. Yup, Disney.

For Sony, it would be a win to give credibility back to a franchise that has been painful two of the last three times the character has been on the bigscreen. To steal a quote from Kevin Feige about the Hulk and how Joss Whedon would use him in The Avengers, "I want him to be cool again."

While Spider-Man's profitability is still not in question, the last three Spider-Man movies have all crossed the $700 billion mark and the franchise still averages $790+ worldwide, the cool factor is definitely wearing out. Who hasn't made an Emo Parker dance joke?

There's only one thing left to do....twitter mob. Let's all promise #Sony that we'll see 5 Sony films at the theater this year so long as they go take Marvel up on the offer.