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Vincent D’Onofrio Says Marvel and Sony Need to ‘Get Their S—t Together’ So Spider-Man Can Fight Kingpin: ‘It’s a Complicated Rights Issue’

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https://variety.com/2026/film/news/vincent-donofrio-marvel-sony-spider-man-kingpin-1236698689/
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Curious-Department-7 Mar 25, 2026 +14
Sony shouldn't be able to cling onto the IP by releasing universally panned movies.
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DavidLivedInBritain Mar 25, 2026 +7
Marvel sold it, also spider verse movies are the best comic book movies. They also release the worst with Morbius
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Curious-Department-7 Mar 25, 2026 +5
Madam web was really bad. Kraven was also terrible. I dont think the venom movies are very good either.
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PaulVla Mar 25, 2026 +6
You can't just leave Morbius out like that
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Curious-Department-7 Mar 25, 2026 +4
He mentioned it, I didn't think was worth mentioning again.
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TheWorclown Mar 25, 2026 +3
Sony thought it was worth a second theatrical release run, so surely it’s worth mentioning a second time.
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FuklzTheDrnkClwn Mar 25, 2026 +1
The part where he literally looks directly into the camera and says “it’s morbin time” is definitely worth mentioning.
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Ok_Philosopher_1313 Mar 25, 2026 +1
While I normally don't believe in AI in movies I would hands down buy the 4k remaster of Morbius where he says It's Morbin' Time.
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DavidLivedInBritain Mar 25, 2026 +3
Venom is fun but I agree they’ve made bad stuff too. Worth it for spider-verse
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Pendraconica Mar 25, 2026 +3
Venom has Tom Hardy. He's arguably the only good quality of those movies.
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Curious-Department-7 Mar 25, 2026 +2
This. There was potential in every movie. But Tom Hardy was the only good part of those movies.
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Sad_Locksmith_2904 Mar 25, 2026 +2
The first Spider-Verse movie was a top 20 comic book movie.
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DavidLivedInBritain Mar 25, 2026 +1
Top 5 if not 1 IMO
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Psykpatient Mar 25, 2026 +5
Why? They're following the contract Marvel negotiated.
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Motor-Committee4042 Mar 25, 2026 +4
It’s never going to happen. Unless Sony wants to get into the theme park business I’d say it’s a long shot at best. Best case scenario would be for them both to be acquired by a third party. But there is no financial incentive to do so. It would cost billions of dollars to do and in the end whatever company did buy them would be worse off for doing so. If we’re predicting which companies are going to merge or be acquired I have theories. Market consolidation is in flux right now due to paramount-WB-Netflix clusterfuck. But the market already responded by giving Netflix a stock “pop” after they backed down.
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Pendraconica Mar 25, 2026 +2
I remember a big argument happening before Spidey entered the MCU, and they found a way. There's too much money here for them to just leave it on the table.
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MichaelMyersEatsDogs Mar 25, 2026 +3
No. Sony owns the movie rights but not the tv rights. But they also allow Spider-Man to show up in marvels movies. So Spider-Man and kingpin are in the same universe but can’t cross over into each others respective tv/movie medium. Definitely more complicated than your comment suggests
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MagnetoWasRight24 Mar 25, 2026 -9
I'll admit I haven't seen the new Daredevil or that Hawkeye show he was in, but based on the Netflix show idk how this Kingpin could manage a physical fight against Spider-Man.
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Superb-Obligation858 Mar 25, 2026 +3
He beats a man to death and holds his own against Daredevil in a fist fight in the Netflix show. The character has always used fat to obscure his muscle, which is considerable. That being said, he’s not even necessarily talking about a fist fight. Kingpin and Spider-Man have just as much history as he does with Daredevil.
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Pendraconica Mar 25, 2026 +2
"I never watched the show but feel totally fine expressing uninformed opinions about it."
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billbotbillbot Mar 26, 2026 +1
Welcome to Reddit!
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