After months of stumbling through unofficial titles for Sony Pictures Spider-Verse, a name’s finally chosen – the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters (SPUMC).
Every site used a different name for the Sony/Marvel joint universe, but this week that all changed. IGN reached out Sony Pictures for clarification on what to refer to the Spider-Verse and the studio replied, the ‘Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters’.
The studio’s used this since 2019. This title covers all Sony/Marvel films from their animated films like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, to the live-action films like Venom: Let There be Carnage.
The future looks bright for the SPUMC. With Marvel assisting in helping tie together the universe, the studio’s managing to do something no one else has: cracking the MCU formula.
The two-studio deal means that Sony could lose in the deal. After seeing Spider-Man Far From Home nab $1.32 billion at the global box office, it’s hard to even consider the possibility of failure. This could also be the initial steps to that very thing. We will just have to see how the SPUMC plays out.
Tom Holland’s Spider-Man should appear (at some point) in a future SPUMC greater universe film, but which one will that be? My bet’s on Venom 2. I think that Morbius will only have hints to everything else rather than direct cameos or larger parts.
Sony’s lined up four more films in the chute to start hitting theaters next year. The first is the Jared Leto-led Morbius (March 19, 2021), followed by Venom: Let There Be Carnage (June 25, 2021), another solo MCU Spider-Man (November 5, 2021), and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 (October 7, 2021).
