Tom Holland's Spider-Man To Appear In Avengers 4

Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures came to a historic agreement a couple of years ago when they came together to allow Sony's Spider-Man property to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  He made his first appearance last year's Captain America: Civil War, and he's following it up with this year's Spider-Man: Homecoming.  The agreement also allowed Marvel to use him in their upcoming Avengers: Infinity War that will be coming out next year, and then in 2019, Tom Holland will get his first sequel to Homecoming.  It's now been confirmed, by none other than Kevin Feige, that Spider-Man will also be appearing in Avengers 4.  While it doesn't sound like big news, it hadn't been confirmed that he would be in the movie until recently.  So that's two movies that Spider-Man will be appearing in in2019.  Should be a big year for Holland!


While it should come as no surprise that he'll be appearing in Avengers 4, it hadn't been confirmed until recently.  The question now is, what role, if any, will Spider-Man play in the MCU after Avengers 4?  Avengers 4 is as far as the agreement between Marvel and Sony goes, so will they renegotiate a contract to keep allowing him to appear in Marvel movies, and to let Marvel characters to appear in the Spider-Man movies?  Feige's response to the question wasn't too promising:


“That’s as far as it goes for now.”


I guess that it's really all up to Sony.  They have two movies planned that feature Spider-Man characters, but that won't be tied to the MCU.  There's a Venom movie that's being worked on, and a Silver Sable and Black Cat movie, as well.  So the question that Sony needs to ask themselves would be, is it more profitable for us to keep Spider-Man in the MCU so they could keep sharing different Marvel characters in their movies, while helping Marvel make tons of money off of their property, or bail on the MCU and bring him over to their own spin-offs universe so he can interact with their other properties?  It's a tough question for Sony.  The recent surge in Spider-Man's popularity was only due to his joining the MCU.  When Sony is left to make their own decisions, they screw things up (i.e. Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 1 &2).  Do they really think that they can do better on their own?  In my opinion, no, but they might get greedy and want him all to themselves, and if that happens, they may screw up the good thing that they've got going right now.


Spider-Man: Homecoming will be released July 7, 2017
Avengers: Infinity War will be released May 4, 2018
The Spider-Man sequel will be released some time in 2019
Avengers 4 will be released May 3, 2019