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Spider-Man: Silk spin-off in development

By Eric Chrisman

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 25: Tiffany Espensen attends the "Patrick Melrose" Series Premiere at Linwood Dunn Theater on April 25, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Greg Doherty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 25: Tiffany Espensen attends the "Patrick Melrose" Series Premiere at Linwood Dunn Theater on April 25, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Greg Doherty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) /
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Sony has plans for movies not just starring Spider-Man, but many of his amazing friends, including one of his more recent friends in the comic book universe, Silk.

While Spider-Man is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that hasn’t really slowed down or altered Sony’s own plans to build their own web of movies based on characters associated with the world’s favorite wall-crawler. There’s Venom later this year, a movie starring Silver Sable and Black Cat supposedly in development, and apparently so is a movie about fellow Spider-being Cindy Moon, a.k.a. “Silk”.

If Silk doesn’t sound familiar to you, it just means you probably haven’t read a Spider-Man comic in a few years. She first appeared in 2014 in the comic book The Amazing Spider-Man, and since has had her own self-titled comic.

The short origin of Silk is that she is a fellow classmate of Peter Parker’s, Cindy Moon, who was also bitten by the same radioactive spider Peter was. But Cindy couldn’t control her powers. A man named Ezekiel offered to train her, but also kept her locked up for years after training her in order to supposedly keep her safe. Spider-Man learned about her existence and rescued her. They found out they had a powerful natural attraction to each other, which made it very hard to focus on things like discussing the latest villain trying to kill them.

A character named “Cindy” has appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming played by actress Tiffany Espensen, but she’s never called by name and only has a small part, and she may or may not be Cindy Moon. But in the comics, both characters are much older when they meet. Peter Parker is the CEO of Parker Industries, no longer a young starving part-time newspaper photographer.

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Silk is a cool character who could probably support her own movie if properly introduced and built up. But much like the other Spidey-adjacent films in development, Sony doesn’t seem to actually have plans to do that, just make a movie with a character name (who has no cachet outside of hardcore comic book fans) bearing little if any resemblance to the character it’s actually based on. You can totally make a cinematic universe that is centered around Spider-Man and characters strictly related to him, as it’s a deep rich cast. Sony just seems to be doing it in the most wrong-headed way possible.