'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' Is The Next Spider-Man Film To Swing To Disney+
Another incremental step in bringing Spider-Man films to Disney+ has been taken
The Andrew Garfield Spider-Man collection on Disney+ has been completed. In the next step toward bringing Sony’s Spider-Man movies to the streamer, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 the second and last film of the Garfield-starring series, arrived on Friday, August 11.
The progress started in April, when it was announced that the webslinger’s films would start making their way, rather imminently. The Sam Raimi-directed, Tobey Maguire-starring trilogy and the Marc Webb-directed first Amazing film landed on April 21, just a day after the news broke. But they weren’t the only films announced, as Spider-Man: Homecoming and Venom got May 12 dates at the same time. In the sequel, Garfield’s Peter Parker struggles with balancing his superhero and personal lives. The film also stars Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, Jamie Foxx as Electro, Dane deHaan as Harry Osborn, Paul Giamatti as Rhino and Sally Field as Aunt May.
In April 2021, Disney and Sony agreed to a multi-year content licensing agreement that would not only bring 2022 to 2026’s new releases to Disney platforms including Disney+ following the Pay-1 window (which had days before been granted to Netflix), but the Spider-Man films and other library films like the Jumanji and Hotel Transylvania series to the service. However, outside of the Spider-Man films it hasn’t quite started. While in previous coverage a hypothetical “Marvel priority” was discussed, it wouldn’t actually last long. The two Ghost Rider films starring Nicolas Cage were the only Marvel films they did not directly tied to Spider-Man.
The deal is probably responsible for the recent Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse airings on Freeform, but it’s unclear if Across the Spider-Verse and other Sony Pictures Animation projects in the window are included. Into might. Even so, what remains of the Spider-Man library are Spider-Man: Far From Home and the 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, who as still part of the Starz Pay-1 deal might just be exiting it and still have other obligations to get to. In the 4 months since the arrivals started there’s been no elaboration for what else from Sony there will be because it’s so concentrated so far.
