We’re almost a year away from the latest reboot of the beloved Spider-Man series, and we still barely know anything about it. No plot, no villains… heck, we don’t even have a TITLE yet. Or at least, we didn’t until earlier today. Maybe.
You see, movie studios can’t keep everything a secret. If they intend to put up a website for an upcoming movie, they have to register the domain name ahead of time just like everybody else. That’s how we found out that the last James Bond movie was going to be called SPECTRE before the studio made an official announcement, and that’s why we now have every reason to suspect that the next Spider-Man movie will be called Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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Or possibly Spider-Man Homecoming. It’s hard to tell from a URL like SpiderManHomecomingTheMovie.com, which Sony recently registered (via BBC). It certainly seems to be real because the link now sends you directly to the Sony Pictures website. And as titles go it makes perfect sense: the new Spider-Man movie brings the superhero back home to Marvel Studios (which is working on the film with Sony) and it promises to return the character back to his high school roots.
Then again, even if it’s real this title might be misleading. Sony Pictures is currently working on an animated Spider-Man feature film of their own, separate from the live-action Marvel Studios film, and for all we know this title could be for that other upcoming movie, being developed by The LEGO Movie masterminds Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Then again, the animated movie isn’t due in theaters until late 2018, so registering the domain name for Jon Watts’ live-action film probably takes priority.
Again, this is hardly a slam dunk. The studio could even have gone so far as to register the wrong domain name in order to keep the real title a surprise. But with the film arriving in theaters on July 7, 2017 we are bound to hear something very official, very soon. Stay tuned, kids.
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Eight Iconic Superhero Fights You Will Never See in a Movie:
Top Photo: Marvel Studios
Eight Iconic Superhero Fights You Will Never See in a Movie
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Avengers vs. X-Men
Marvel's biggest superhero teams came to blows in the epic, multi-series crossover Avengers vs. X-Men (a.k.a. AvX) in 2012, but the two franchises are owned by different studios - Avengers at Disney, X-Men at Fox - and it's unlike they will ever want to share the profits on what could be the biggest movie ever produced.
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Batman vs. Guy Gardner
Warner Bros. owns the rights to both Batman and Guy Gardner, Earth's jerkiest Green Lantern, but the odds that they'll actually put Gardner in a movie - especially when Hal Jordan, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner are more popular - are pretty slim. So the iconic fight in which Batman took Guy out in a single punch will, sadly, probably never make it in front of the cameras.
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Daredevil vs. Sub-Mariner
In one of the great early Marvel superhero fights, Sub-Mariner emerged from Atlantis to destroy humanity, and only Daredevil was around to stop him. Outmatched in every way, Daredevil fought until he collapsed. Sub-Mariner respected his fearlessness so much he figured humanity was worth sparing. Both characters are owned by Marvel, but the studio is still trying to get the rights to Sub-Mariner sorted out after the character was originally optioned by Universal.
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The Hulk vs. The Thing
The strongest, most misunderstood monsters in the Marvel Universe have a long and storied history of beating the crap out of each other. Who is strongest? Who is toughest? We may never know in live-action, since Fox owns the rights to Fantastic Four and Marvel's got The Hulk under their own banner.
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Marvel vs. DC
It took decades for Marvel and DC to set aside their differences long enough for a comic book crossover between their competing superhero universes, and it will probably be at least that long before Marvel Studios and Warner Bros. seriously consider letting Batman fight Captain America, Superman fight Thor, and so on and so forth.
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Superboy vs. Superboy Prime
The teenaged clone of Superman and Lex Luthor repeatedly fought an alternate reality Superboy who was a dangerously insane mass murderer. Yeah, even though Warner Bros. obviously owns both Superboy and Superboy Prime, the odds that we'll ever see their weird, epic, head-exploding battle on the big screen are extremely low.
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Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
Aliens have challenged Earth's mightiest champion, but when Superman steps forward, the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali points out that he's not really from Earth. So they fight to prove who is truly the greatest, and sure enough, Muhammad Ali kicks Superman's ass (in all fairness, the hero's powers were deactivated, and he put up a good fight). But it seems highly unlikely that Warner Bros. will decide to send Superman back in time to fight Ali in his prime, doesn't it?
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Wolverine vs. Anyone Cool
In the Marvel Comics, fighting Wolverine is like a rite of passage. He's had iconic tussles with The Hulk, Captain America and Spider-Man, and was thrown head-to-head against any rookie hero that the publisher wanted to prove was a badass. But Wolverine is owned by Fox, who only have the rights to the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. We will probably never see Wolverine fight an Avenger in a live-action movie, and that sucks.
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