In early July, millions of people went to see ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’ – which made a gross of over 1.1 billion dollars worldwide. Now Spider-Man fans around the world are worried for the future of the Spider-Man franchise as the parent companies Disney and Sony split apart. 

The breaking news in superhero history is even affecting students at PLHS who have a passion for Marvel movies and comics. 

“Marvel Movies are movies I’ve been able to experience throughout the majority of my life, and because of this has made me a big fan of the franchise as well as superheroes in general,” senior Cael Hospodka said. 

Most kids grew up watching the Marvel movies and growing with the characters. So, if most had the chance, they would do all they could to make another deal and put Spider-Man back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). 

“Each company pays for half of the production on the movies but allows Sony to keep 70 (percent) of the earnings and let Disney keep 30 (percent) as Sony is the owner of Spider-Man,” senior Joey Cordova said. 

No one could ever have predicted this split between companies and the huge impact it has in the community. With the jaw dropping ending of ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home,’ Peter Parker’s identity revealed, and the plan to put Spider-Man in the next Avengers movie and at least one more movie, no one will know what will happen to the next movie plots.  

“This greatly affects the future of the MCU due to the fact that the biggest character in the franchise left his legacy to Spider-Man only to have Spider-Man cut from the franchise,” Hospodka said. 

One big part of the contract is Disney pulling former producer and President of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige from leading the creative ideas and story plots of the previous movies since they have many more movies to make and no time to focus on characters Disney does not own. 

“[The movies] will no doubt make a good amount of profits because it’s a Spider-Man film … but the overall substance will severely lack,” Hospodka said. 

The last two Spider-Man movies, grossing over 1.9 billion dollars worldwide, were some of Sony’s most successful movies; the new producers will have to step up their game to compete with that. 

“Sony will do ok. [They] will probably just reuse the whole uncle Ben death, maybe do another origin story, but I feel they won’t be able to compete with the two MCU Spider-Man movies,” Cordova said.