It's Official: Marvel and Sony to basically share Spider-Man

[S. Griffin]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/spider-man-swings-marvel-studios-772127?mobile_redirect=false

[AcidDragon]

Yeah, I wondering when it would get the official word. Glad to (hopefully) see him in Civil War, his personal struggles during that cross over was the most interesting to me.

[Ken Davis]

Now the speculation for the Age of Ultron end-credits scene busts WIDE open.

Oh, this is great, GREAT news. Looking forward to what comes out of this.

[Idiot Savant]

As great as news as this is, I am REALLY hoping they don't shoehorn him into his first MU film...use him properly and do it right

[Ken Davis]

My guess is because it's known he's going to appear at some point, they'll ease him and his presence in in steps.

Might start with a off-hand comment about a " Spider-guy, in New York City"---maybe from Coulson on Agent's of SHIELD, and then maybe an end-credit scene in one of the movies before Civil War, and then an appearance in Civil war itself, with a segue into his own next film.
I'd bet dollars to donuts now that in-jokes and sight gags for Spidey, the Daily Bugle et al will start appearing soon, because those things, as much as character appearances, place him in the Universe at large. A quick conversion of a building on the background to an Oscorp tower and boom, instant placement, and the tapestry starts weaving.

[Doctor Fate]

As great as news as this is, I am REALLY hoping they don't shoehorn him into his first MU film...use him properly and do it right

I'm kinda of skeptical about this because I feel that Marvel is really messing up with Spider-Man more ways than one. I agree with Idiot Savant here concerning that they don't shoehorn him in his first Marvel Universe film. The problem with Spider-Man franchise that they haven't made a memorable movie since Tobey Maquire left the series in 2007. That's how I feel about Spider-Man - The Movies that is. I just don't trust Sony at all.

[AcidDragon]

Yeah man and the third movie was memorable for all the wrong reasons as far as I'm concerned.