Highlights
- Sony’s canceled Sinister Six film would have featured Spider-Man riding a T-Rex in the Savage Land, a prehistoric area hidden in Antarctica.
- The leaked Sony emails previously revealed that the Sinister Six would include Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Sandman, Mysterio, and Black Cat.
- While the idea of Spider-Man riding a T-Rex sounds cool, the film may have been seen as fan fiction following the disappointing release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
One of Sony’s canceled Spider-Man spinoffs included a scene with a part of the Marvel Comics universe that has yet to make its big-screen debut.
Before Spider-Man joined the MCU in Captain America: Civil War, Sony was planning their own Spider-Man universe with Andrew Garfield. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was setting up a Sinister Six spinoff movie, with Drew Goddard set to direct and write the film. Garfield said he was excited about the film before its cancellation. After The Amazing Spider-Man 2 received negative reviews from critics and fans, Sony canceled the sequel and potential spinoffs despite both films grossing over $700 million worldwide.
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In Joanna Robinson’s tell-all book, MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, she revealed that Goddard’s script for the now-canceled Sinister Six spinoff film included a unique scene with Spider-Man riding a T-Rex. “By the end of 2014, [Drew Goddard] had a draft that took Spider-Man and his villains to the Savage Land, where Spider-Man would ride a T-Rex.” In Marvel Comics, the Savage Land is a secret prehistoric tropical area hidden deep within Antarctica where dinosaurs continue to roam the earth. This would have been the first time the Savage Land would appear in live-action, though it later brief appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as an Easter egg.
It was previously known that the Savage Land would be a part of the canceled Sinister Six film, but it was never known that Spider-Man would ride a T-Rex in the film. Other information about the film in the 2014 Sony email leak revealed that Spider-Man may have teamed up with Doctor Octopus, The Vulture, Sandman, Mysterio, and The Black Cat to form the Sinister Six. They would all be fighting against an alien named Gog, whom Doc Ock wanted to free from an alternate dimension to join his Sinister Six.
The Sinister Six film sounds more like fan fiction or a kid playing with action figures than a film proposed by Sony executives and written by award-winning writer Goddard. As cool as it would have been to see Spider-Man ride a T-Rex, it might not have been well received had the movie followed the disappointing release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
However, Sony still has plans for the Sinister Six, as they specifically limited the number of Spider-Man: No Way Home villains to five so they could use the Sinister Six in their own project. Fans who want to see Spider-Man ride a T-Rex in live-action may have to wait longer.
Source: MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios