The writing was mainly on the wall for this one.
Amazon’s Marvel drama Silk: Spider Society — from producers Sony Footage Tv — is not shifting ahead on the streamer. Sources say Sony TV, which owns rights to a fraction of the Marvel universe that options greater than 900 characters, plans to buy the drama sequence from former Strolling Lifeless showrunner Angela Kang. Kang, who departed her pact with AMC for what sources say is an eight-figure cope with Amazon, stays housed on the streamer and can proceed to develop tasks for the corporate.
Reps for Amazon and Sony declined to remark.
The choice to scrap Silk comes a mere two days after Amazon, throughout its first in-person pitch to Madison Avenue advert patrons, introduced a Sony-produced Marvel sequence Noir, starring Nicolas Cage.
Noir, like Silk, is poised to launch first on Amazon’s linear community, MGM+, earlier than debuting on the streamer. Each reveals are exec produced by Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Amy Pascal (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and conceived as half of a bigger suite of live-action reveals based mostly on the Sony Footage universe of Marvel characters.
Plans for the interconnected Marvel slate of Sony reveals stays in place, sources say, although solely Noir can be a part of that now except one other purchaser for Silk emerges. It’s unclear if Sony may store Silk to Disney, which owns the remainder of the MCU and has discovered huge success with its shared universe of movies and TV reveals.
Silk, which was formally introduced in November 2022, was poised to reopen its writers room in January of this yr after hitting pause for the Writers Guild of America strike. The delayed room re-opening — which triggered a warning for Amazon and Sony from the WGA — got here after the studio and streamer used the strike to judge work that had already been accomplished for Silk.
Silk was based mostly on characters created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos. The sequence was impressed by the Marvel comics and follows Cindy Moon, a Korean-American lady bitten by the identical spider that bit Peter Parker, as she escapes imprisonment and searches for her lacking household on her strategy to changing into the superhero often known as Silk. The present was to be one of many first to function a Korean-American superhero at its heart.
For his or her half, Lord and Miller moved their general deal from Disney’s twentieth Tv to Sony in April 2019 and, as a part of the nine-figure pact, have been handed management of the studio’s Marvel slate. Sony retains rights to characters together with Spider-Man (and all his villains, like Inexperienced Goblin); Venom (the Tim Hardy movies); Morbius (i.e. the live-action function with Jared Leto); and Black Cat and Silver Sable (each beforehand in growth on the function aspect). Choose TV tasks associated to Sony’s Marvel characters can be produced in partnership with former Sony Footage Leisure co-chairman Pascal. Additionally probably on the desk: all of the characters from Into the Spider-Verse.