Sony didn’t want Tom Holland for Spider-Man, Say Russo Brothers

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First of all, as you dare, Sony.

In the an interview apparently about their new movie Cherry, Tom Holland and Anthony and Joe Russo aka the The Russo brothers he addressed the previously unseen spider in the room: Tom Holland wasn’t exactly the one Spider Man Sony wanted, according to the Russians. With great power comes a great responsibility and, according to the Russo brothers, Sony he was not sure he would take on this special responsibility.

In the interview with British GQ, the Russo brothers told how they have to fight for us the patron saint of spoilers.

“I talked to Feige at Marvel about the Netherlands and he got excited and then I went to Sony …,” Joe explains. “And they said, ‘Let’s think about this for a minute.’ We could say that we are facing resistance from Sony. So I brought it [Holland] back, we brought him back, we brought him back and we were tireless in our quest to lock him in the neck of the studio that owns this IP. A fight ensued, but Sony continued to pull its feet … they were reluctant, nervous, about passing on something that could eventually cost them hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more. billions of dollars. ”

But the rest is history. Sony has spread its legs and now we are approaching our third Tom Holland Spider-Man movie.


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