Sony is pre-kicking off San Diego Comic-Con with a complete rearrangement of their film slate! Columbia Pictures announced today that they’ve pushed back Amazing Spider-Man 3 to an unspecified date in 2018 and are instead moving up Spidey villains film Sinister Six to November 11, 2016.
Sinister Six, written and directed by Cabin in the Woods’ Drew Goddard, will gather some of Spider-Man’s biggest foes to try and pick off the webslinging superhero. While no cast has been announced, we’re assuming that (if they’re going by the comics) we’ll get to see the baddies from Amazing Spider-Man 2 again, along with Vulture, Doctor Octopus and…well, there’s a lot of candidates for that sixth slot, aren’t there?
Variety points out that Amazing Spider-Man 4 was originally slated to open in theaters on May 4, 2018, but clearly that’s not happening. And taking over Amazing Spider-Man 3’s original release date of June 10, 2016 is Uncharted, based on the popular video game starring Nathan Drake.
Could the lackluster response to Amazing Spider-Man 2 have inspired the studio to rearrange its slate and bring forward its villains movie to compete with Avengers: Age of Ultron and the Justice League movie?
Great interview. Thanks for posting it.
While I am excited for this book, and I’m sure the art that is included is of high quality, I am disappointed in Mignola’s statement that the artwork here is on the same level as in Baltimore, that is a general lack of it. Much of the art in Baltimore was made up of little square panels filled with a single skull a piece. I had hoped this would have more.
Great interview – definitely looking forward to this, and am now excited to go grab the Baltimore books which I somehow missed out on.
I find most of Mignola’s writing for the past 7 years or so to have been disappointing. It’s become formulaic. Very boring. I’ve stopped collecting the Hellboy Oversized HCs after Volume 3. The Crooked Man story of Volume 4 was particularly emblematic of how braindead Mignola’s stories have become. So the titular antagonist “The Crooked Man” is defeated when a random priest Hellboy encounters draws a cross on a shovel and Hellboy hits the crooked man over the head with it. That’s so anti-climatic and utterly stupid that I can’t believe Mignola felt comfortable releasing that story. Such a lazy piece of work. The art by Richard Corben was wonderful though. It’s shame his talents are being wasted on such substandard writing (ie, Mignola).
We’ll see what “Hellboy in Hell” holds, but I’m not getting my hopes up.