Marvel boss makes big decision about new ‘Spider-Man’ show

Ahead of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man release, Marvel TV head Brad Winderbaum said that the new show will not cater to the MCU canon.

“It started out as ‘Okay it’s Spider-Man’s freshman year, he’s going to be a freshman, can we get away with this being entirely in the MCU?’ and very early on in the development process, we realized how locked in that actually made us,” he said the decision was made to avoid limitation on the series. 

“We couldn’t really use his rogues gallery, we couldn’t really use his origin. It was not fun, honestly. We would’ve had to put so many limiters on our story to get it to lock into the canon,” the top head explained.

Brad concluded that these limitations were hindering the creative work on the show, so they decided to drop it.

“Every single project I’ve worked on, they’ve all had a life of their own…. You have to let them live their own lives and go where they want to go.”

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man focuses on an alternate MCU timeline where Norman Osborn would guide Peter Parker instead of Tony Stark, as the series will be out on Disney Plus on January 29, 2025.