Sony didn’t want Tom Holland to be Spider-Man, Say Russo Brothers

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First of all, as you dare, Sony.

In an interview apparently about his new film Cherry, Tom Holland and Anthony and Joe Russo, also known as the Germans Russo he turned to the spider he hadn’t seen in the room before: Tom Holland wasn’t exactly the Spiderman. Spider-Man Sony wanted, according to the Russians. With great power comes a great responsibility and, according to the Russo brothers, Sony he was unsure of taking on that particular responsibility.

In the interview with British GQ, the Russo brothers explained how they had to fight for ours spoiler pattern.

“We talked to Feige at Marvel about Holland and he got excited and then we went to Sony …,” Joe explains. “And they said, ‘Let’s think about it for a minute.’ We could say we met with resistance from Sony. [Holland] back, he brought it back, he brought it back, and we were relentless in our quest to block it down the throat of the studio that owns this IP. It ended in a fight, even though Sony kept dragging their feet … they were reluctant, nervous, in delivering something that could eventually cost them hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars. dollars ”.

But the rest is history. Sony got its feet wet and now we’re approaching our third Tom Holland Spider-Man movie.


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