It's official: Spider-Man is back in the MCU!

Sony and Marvel have jointly announced that Tom Holland's iteration of the character is back under the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Studios banner. The two companies also confirmed that the third Spider-Man movie will reach cinemas July 2021 and form part of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Phase 4.

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F🍷eige also teases a few potential crossovers in Spidey's future: "He also happens to be the only hero with the🍬 superpower to cross cinematic universes, so as Sony continues to develop their own Spidey-verse you never know what surprises the future might hold.”

Does that potentially mean a live-action Spider-Verse? All we know for sure is that the th🐻ird Spider-Man movie will release on July 16, 2021 and that Holland's Peter Parker will appear in a "future Marvel Studios film."

So, what exactly happened between Sony and Marvel that led to Spider-Man temporarily leaving the MCU earlier this year? Sony initially released a statement suggesting that the split happened due to head of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige’s increasing workload. The statement reads: “We hope this might change in the future, but understand that the many new responsibilities that Disney has given him – including all their newly added Ma🌜rvel properties – do not allow time for him to work on IP they do not own.&rd🐈quo;

Feige's workload has certainly increased over the last year: not only does Marvel now have access to all of Fox's superhero characters (X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool), but Feige is 澳洲幸运5开𒉰奖号码历史查询:developing a new Star♏ Wars movie for LucasFilm. Still, somewhere in his packed schedule, the MCU mastermind h🎃as found room to produce a third Spider-Man movie, and we couldn't be happier.

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