'Silk: Spider Society' Spider-Man Series Dropped By Amazon
'Silk: Spider Society' Spider-Man Series Dropped By Amazon
Cindy Moon will seemingly be swinging away to hopefully greener pastures
Well, so much for that. Just days after having announced the ordering of Noir, the Spider-Man Noir-focused series starring Nicolas Cage that was developed after it, Amazon has scrapped the Silk: Spider Society series centered on the Cindy Moon character, after five years of development and two years since being greenlit.
Cindy Moon is a Korean-American woman bitten by the same spider that bit Peter Parker, as she escapes imprisonment and searches for her missing family on her way to becoming Silk. But here, the writing was on the wall, having gone unmentioned at the Upfronts but demonstrates that despite the partnership between Sony Pictures Television, MGM+ and Prime Video, it was not a package deal. This will not leave Noir alone, as Silk is still being shopped by Sony Pictures Television and will maintain its connections should it be picked up again. Amazon is also still committed to developing more series based on the Spider-Man suite of characters Sony has rights to, and there are more than 900 of them.
In 2019, Lauren Moon was brought on to write, and the Amazon home was found. A year after that, Tom Spiezaly was brought on as showrunner and collaborated with Moon. 2022 brought on the official unveiling of the partnership and the litany of developing Spider-People series for Prime Video/MGM+, led by Silk, now with Angela Kang as new writer, executive producer and showrunner and Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller and Spider-Man franchise producer Amy Pascal as executive producers. Kang departed her deal with AMC for what has been reported to be an eight-figure overall deal with Amazon, is still under said deal and thus will continue to develop projects there. It has not been specified if the projects she’ll develop will be further Spider-Man suite series.
The greenlight was apparently script-dependent, and at least three versions were produced. At one point, Kang and the team were asked to stop focusing on Silk so much. In the series that bears her name. While evaluating script material and brainstorming how to go forward, the higher-ups delayed the reopening of Silk‘s writers room after the strikes ended last fall, drawing a heated response from the Writers Guild of America, before it was ultimately made to start from scratch. While Kang’s last pitch was well-received, it was decided to fund Noir among their pricy genre IP projects instead of Silk. Whether taking a bad understanding of why Madame Web failed is a factor is unclear, but regardless, Amazon has been unkind to female-starring series, reneging on an already-brief second and final season of A League of Their Own, but also canceling sci-fi series The Peripheral, starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
Similar to how Max’s Batman: Caped Crusader-led August 2022 scrappings meant it wouldn’t be airing on Cartoon Network and Star Trek: Prodigy’s June 2023 dropping by Paramount+ meant the series wouldn’t return to Nickelodeon, the language used by multiple sources indicates that any linear MGM+ rollout involvement is gone too.
Ssource: Deadline