Sony has repeatedly yelled about its plans to give every outlying Spider-Man character their own movie, whether it makes sense or not. So it’s a bit of a surprise that this week, they revealed they’re giving one of those characters their own TV series instead.
Silk is the creation of Dan Slott, who had the uneviable position of taking control of the Spider-Man comic book right after Quesada destroyed it with “One More Day.” Opnions differ on whether he managed to salvage Spidey, but he did get the opportunity to invent a character that has remained in continuity. Turns out on the day Peter Parker was bit by a radioactive spider, someone ELSE was also bitten, but put into suspended animation until years later.
Cindy Moon (aka Silk) has all Parker’s powers and is essentially Spider-Man again, but Korean. Should this series see production, it will premiere on Amazon Prime Video and MGM Plus (formerly Epix).
Why those places and not Disney+? Because, in case you forgot, Marvel sold the film and TV rights to Spider-Man to Sony in the late 90s when Marvel was in financial quicksand. They pulled themselves out, but that doesn’t change the fact that Sony now has Spider-Man forever unless they do nothing with him for over three years (unlikely). This show won’t take place in the MCU. It will be the Morbius-verse.
What makes this extra-bizarre is that Silk is one of the few characters Sony has that would actually make for a good movie, if done right. Yet she’s been pushed aside in favor of….Kraven the Hunter. Angela Kang, now wrapping up The Walking Dead, will serve as showrunner. The Silk show currently has no release date.
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