It’s a few weeks since Marvel & Sony announced they were teaming up to bring Spider-man into the ever-expanding superhero universe. They revealed Spidey would show up in Captain America: Civil War, and would then go on to his own standalone movie, but it would be done in revamped for with a new actor in the role.
However what there was no mention of was whether Drew Goddard (The Cabin In The Woods, Cloverfield, World War Z) was suddenly out of the picture. He was set to direct Sony’s planned Sinister Six spin-off, which was put on indefinite hold by the Marvel news. However the studio must have liked what he was doing, as THR says he’s now in talks to write and direct to new Spider-man film.
There’s no news on the direction the film will take the character, but Sony has retained creative control over Spidey despite the Marvel tie-up. The movie is due in cinemas July 2017.