THE STORYTELLER

By Avik Basak Well, it was a highly celebrated news among comic book fans, when Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures announced that they will share the rights of Spider-Man in 2015, allowing Marvel’s flagship character to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). While Sony continued to distribute and finance his solo outings with inputs from Marvel, the Disney owned studio got to use him in the giant crossover films. Sequels to The Amazing Spider-Man 2 were cancelled and the franchise was rebooted with the universally loved, Spider-Man: Homecoming , undoubtedly providing us with the best iteration of the wall-crawler till date in Tom Holland. Though, we saw Spidey dust off in Avengers: Infinity War , A sequel to Homecoming , Spider-Man: Far From Home has already started filming with most of the original cast returning. Now, we know that Marvel likes to tell stories for each character in trilogies, such as the Iron Man trilogy, Captain America trilogy and the ...

By Avik Basak Since Marvel’s deal with Sony, I heard many people say, “How many more reboots will we need before we get a Spidey movie, which will bring the truest version of the wall-crawler to the big screen?” It is a very genuine question since both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield failed to hit the right balance between humour and goofiness that is needed for the character. While Garfield was a little too cool, Maguire always used to make me feel sorry for his bad luck. Well, those are in the past now as Spider-Man swings home to the studio, which is named after his original makers. Like they did when then brought most of their characters to the big screen, Marvel Studios were expected to give our “friendly neighbourhood hero” the movie he deserved and boy, they pulled it off with utmost effortlessness. Powered by a team of six writers and the vision of lesser-known director Jon Watts, Spider-Man: Homecoming is the Spider-Man movie we always wanted to se...