Spider-Man Might Leave MCU After Homecoming Sequel

Last night at CinemaCon, former Sony chief and current Spider-Man: Homecoming producer Amy Pascal hinted that Spidey could leave the Marvel Cinematic Universe after his planned 2019 sequel to this summer’s solo movie.

Back in 2015, Spider-Man rights-holder Sony struck a deal with Disney’s Marvel Studios that allowed the latter company to include the previously off-limits Peter Parker in their interconnected films. This pretty much unprecedented deal let Sony keep the film rights to Spider-Man, while Marvel was allowed to freely use the same version of the character in a number of their own films. We last/first saw the most recent, Tom Holland-played Spider-Man in last year’s Captain America: Civil War.

To fans that are still high on the webhead’s inclusion in Marvel’s nearly 10-year-old film series, Pascal’s comments might be a bit disconcerting:

One of the things that I think is so amazing about this experience is that you don’t have studios deciding to work together to make a film very often. In fact it may never happen again, after we do the sequel [to Spider-Man: Homecoming].

As it stands now, the MCU has guaranteed use of Spider-Man in this summer’s Homecoming, next year’s Avengers: Infinity War, the 2019 follow-up Avengers movie and the sequel to Homecoming set for later that same year.