The Amazing Spider-Man 3 Delayed Until 2017

Today, the guys over at Ain’t It Cool News today have gotten word on a possible delay for “The Amazing Spider-Man 3.”

Even though “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” has been a financial success it wasn’t loved by many fans for its over saturation of the Spider-Man universe. A lot like what happened with “Iron Man 2.”

The Sony studio had previously announced 2016 and 2018 release dates for the third and fourth installments of the franchise respectively, but is thought to be planning a rejig in order to maximize box-office impact.

Despite a strong opening weekend, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” saw audiences drop off drastically, a situation that could possibly be attributed to franchise fatigue.

If you go and look at the box office earnings for every other Spider-Man movie since Sam Raimi’s first adaptation, they’ve been dropping steadily since then, and it’s only gotten worse with the reboot franchise.

With the first film in the rebooted franchise appearing in 2012, Sony had planned for a new Spider-Man film every two years, not to mention spin-off projects such as “Venom” and “Sinister Six.”

In order for Spider-Man to work again, he’s going to need a nice long break after this third film, or have some kind of drastic change that doesn’t give us the origin story that everybody in the world knows all over again. This new franchise attempted to play with it a bit, but it’s been such a contrived messy part of the series so far.

Marc Webb is already slated to return to direct The Amazing Spider-Man 3, but it’ll be interesting to see how Sony regroups if this delay of the sequel is true. Will this have an impact on their development of the Venom and Sinister Six spin-offs?

If films that have Spider-Man as the star are losing their appeal, then films about the lesser known villains probably aren’t going to fare much better.