He’s not part of the MCU. Yes, the movies still exist (obviously), but he doesn’t exist anymore. He can’t show up again, can’t be mentioned in passing, can’t give an excuse why he’s not showing up anymore. He’s not part of the universe. He exists as much as Andrew Garfield’s or Toby Maguire’s. Tom Holland is old news.
Not quite how it works. I'm not sure why you think he can't be mentioned in passing, unless you can find me where it states that.
Sony holds the rights. If he’s mentioned in the movies going forward, I’d reason Marvel would have to get permission and pay Sony. Sony is in charge of this.
Sony holds the films rights to the character, that is true. However being that he was already in the MCU, they can mention he went off to college or is off world somewhere and is unavailable. They can even do it in a glib reference, like what happened to that spider guy....
The character being mentioned in a film is Sony’s right. Replace Spider-Man with Batman in this scenario. Characters in the MCU can’t act as if Batman is a real character in the universe because they don’t have the rights to Batman. That’s the situation now with Spider-Man.
You missed the part where I said:
Does Disney have the ability to include Holland as Spider-Man? Do they have the ability to include Garfield, Maguire, or the new Into the SpiderVerse in the parks if they want to? What really is the legal acceptance when taking something from another movie studio even if they have the theme park rights to the character?
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As far as I can comprehend, it’s the equivalent of if a company wanted to create a theme park attraction based off a character in the public domain. You can create a Peter Pan attraction, but you can’t use Disney’s Peter Pan to do it.
Sony doesn’t need to reboot Spider-Man. I believe they’re free to create Spider-Man 3 with Holland if they want to. Those are Sony movies, after all.
The question is whether or not Sony holds any rights to derivative works or those were retained by Marvel way back in the 80s. Universal’s deals for Harry Potter, Men in Black and Transformers are all with the movie studios, so it is possible that Sony at least has some input on theme park attractions derived from their films. It’s also possible that Sony and Paramount, like Warner Bros., acquired the movie and theme parks rights. If Sony does have rights, it would likely be covered under the existing agreement and only hinder future attractions.
General public doesn’t know the difference.
