After hearing about the Fox lockout that Marvel is supposedly doing with the Fantastic Four comics, I went back and did some more reading about the possible situation and I noticed this picture right here that was released the same day or within a few days of hearing about the lockout:
This is a picture of all the Disney owned Marvel franchises. None of the Fantastic Four or Xmen are in this picture. But if Disney was just concerned about their properties then why would Spider-Man be front and center? I didn't think much of it until I came across this image below a few days ago:
Now to the left of Aaron Taylor Johnson see a person in a hooded jacked with red gloves and a red mask around their neck.
Now there is no doubt that that is Andrew Garfield and that he is definitely in Spider-Man costume. Now with him on the set of the Avengers, this would fall in line with reports that Sony was considering selling the rights to the character if the Amazing Spider-Man 2 underperformed. It definitely wasn't a failure, but it was the weakest performing Spider-Man movie to date. Along with that, Andrew recently had his contracted extended to 2020. Plus the Amazing Spider-Man 3 was pushed back to 2017, a year that Marvel/Disney doesn't have any films as of yet slated for release and would be the best time to put him into his own solo film under their own house. Putting him in the Avengers 2 makes the most sense to get him out there and show Disney has control of him but how they will explain where he was during the first Avengers movie has yet to be seen obviously. Sound off in the comments below and let me know what you think. Does Disney own Spider-Man? Are the two studios working together? Or was just some elaborate ruse to get the newsites talking about the movie and boost ticket sales on opening day?
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