Drew Goddard Says the Sony Hack Killed His ‘Sinister Six’ Film

The 2014 Sony hack is without doubt one of the largest data breaches in company historical past—and one which was finally massively essential to the cinematic legacy of Spider-Man. Throughout hundreds and hundreds of emails, an image started to emerge of Sony’s rising floundering over tips on how to strategy its possession of one of the standard comedian guide characters of all time, the potential for an ascendant Marvel Studios to return in and provide a serving to hand, and, in fact, many (many) plans and makes an attempt at spinning Spider-Man off into his personal cinematic universe.

For a really very long time, most of that plan centered on the Sinister Six—six of Spidey’s rogues, often spearheaded by Doc Ock, combining their villainy into an organized group. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 tried to set it up, just for the movie’s sequel to fizzle out amid poor reactions and the lingering injury of the hack. As Spider-Man: Homecoming took off a complete new period for the character, these plans at all times lingered in some type. However for Drew Goddard, who was at one level tasked with bringing these villainous characters to life, his imaginative and prescient of the group died with that 2014 breach.

“I had an enormous Spider-Man film concerning the Sinister Six go down due to the Sony hack,” Goddard not too long ago mirrored in an interview with Variety. “My workplace was proper on the lot, and I noticed the FBI swarm in and the helicopters fly over the studio. I used to be unhappy about it, however there was actually nothing I might do to vary the course of occasions. I suppose it was higher than in the event that they hadn’t favored the script.”

For Goddard, no less than, issues look very completely different. He’s written the adaptation of Undertaking Hail Mary, one of the anticipated movies of the yr. He’s dealing with the unenviable activity of creating a fifth Matrix movie within the wake of the Wachowskis’ departure from the franchise, seemingly for good.

And so they look very completely different for Sony, too. Regardless of the huge success of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man period, set to develop with Brand New Day this summer time, in addition to the separate animated saga of Miles Morales within the Spider-Verse films, the studio’s makes an attempt to craft a related universe out of random Spider-Man-adjacent characters (keep in mind when it was called SPUMC?) to vogue some type of Sinister Six, even with more and more weirder character choices, have been largely unsuccessful. Whereas Venom managed to carve out a efficiently foolish trilogy of movies, Morbius, Madame Internet, and Kraven all fizzled out spectacularly on the field workplace and amongst crucial consensus (on this author’s eye, in fact, Madame Web remains innocent).

Now that the studio has recently indicated that it needs to attempt to reboot its concepts for a largely Spider-Man-less Spider-Man Shared Universe, might the Sinister Six try and rise once more? Time will inform, however clearly, for higher or worse, it’s an concept Sony is as obsessed with as J. Jonah Jameson is with footage of Spider-Man.

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