As Spider-Man: No Way Home tops the box office with $1 billion and growing, the future of our favorite web slinger is wide open. However, the question is which web slinger? That’s still unclear as the multiverse showed us. Anything is possible and anyone can return in one way or another. If you have not seen No Way Home yet, I suggest you come back to this article to avoid spoilers.
We know thay the Sony/Marvel partnership is rocky but it came together to create an amazing once in a lifetime moment on film. That could be enough to ensure that we have more projects on a larger scale in the future. One of the rumors out there is that Sony wants Emma Stone to step back into the world of Spider-Man as Gwen Stacy. This time though, she will have her own mission and powers when she suits up as Spider-Gwen.
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According to @MyTimetoShineH on Twitter, Sony Pictures is working on a Spider-Gwen project and wants Stone to return for this role. The rumor was first mentioned by @EdwinSRP, who has shared other related rumors since the release of No Way Home. The rumor was echoed by @MyTimetoShineH, who has a pretty good track record when it comes to leaks. Emma Stone played Gwen Stacy in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man and its 2014 sequel. Her performance with lead Andrew Garfield received pretty high praise. Many fans have been eager to see her step back into the role somehow and No Way Home might have opened that door.
The character has been a major part of Spider-Man’s life for a long time, she was first created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee in 1965’s The Amazing Spider-Man #31. Over the years, she has be one of Peter Parker’s many love interests, and her tragic death at the hands of the Green Goblin is one of the most iconic moments in comic book history. A version of the event served as the climax of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which in turn became a major moment in No Way Home.
However in 2014, an alternate reality version of Gwen was introduced in Edge of Spider-Verse #2. On Earth-65, Gwen was the one bitten by a radioactive spider. She became Spider-Woman, better known to fans as Spider-Gwen. She’d eventually move over into the main Marvel universe in the comics and was voiced by Hailee Steinfeld in 2018’s acclaimed Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and from the new teaser trailer she will be making her return in Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse Part 1. You can eatch the teaser below:
Spider-Gwen has been pretty popular in any version and with the recent success of the No Way Home, it certanly would seem that Sony Pictures would want to produce more projects with these charcters. The real question is if any of these rumors are true and will Sony go out and try to do this on their own? Or could we see another partnership with Marvel? Only time will tell.
