So, Roberto Orci, who was one half of the screen-writing duo for the first two Amazing Spider-Man films, has left the Spider-Man franchise, as evidenced by an interview he recently conducted with IGN where he mentioned that he was not ‘officially involved’ with the Amazing Spider-Man 3. Or, as evidenced by the fact that Orci, and his screen-writing partner Alex Kurtzman’s departure from the Spider-Man films was announced months ago.

However for some reason Orci’s recent comments have sparked an internet-wide spat of Amazing Spider-Man 3 doubting, headlines like “Is Amazing Spider-Man 2 in trouble” and “Sony literally have no money because a screen-writer doesn’t know what the next film will be” are running rampant and people are getting fairly hysterical about it all.

So let’s take a look at what Orci actually said to IGN “I don’t know what their plans are for that franchise. I don’t ever want to say never, but we have to figure out what their scheduling is in terms of when they want each movie. I’ve read probably as much as anyone else. There’s a love for the Sinister Six, the idea of Venom — there’s an idea of Spider-Man’s going to be one of these characters that’s part of our business.”

Now then folks. I’m going to go ahead and explain to you all why the idea that the above statement from Orci means that Amazing Spider-Man 3 is in trouble is rubbish First of all Orci left the project ages ago, so using his departure as a shocking revelation of problems, just like Edgar Wright’s departure from the ‘Ant-Man’ film, simply doesn’t work. In fact the reason why Orci is off the film is because he and his screen-writing partner Alex Kurtzman parted ways and he’s now busy with the Star Trek franchise.

Secondly why would someone who isn’t ‘officially’ attached to the Spider-Man franchise, and hasn’t been involved for at least two months know what on earth Sony are planning with their movies, especially when all of the recent changes such as the Amazing Spider-Man 3 being pushed back to 2017 , and the possibility that the Sinister Six film could be next, took place after Orci left the franchise. Basically the fact that someone not working on the project doesn’t know what’s happening in the project doesn’t mean that the project isn’t in trouble.

Thirdly we already know that the schedule for future Spider-Man films from Sony is a little flexible, we already know that Sony aren’t entirely sure what film we’re going to get next, will it be Sinister Six, or will it be Amazing Spider-Man 3. Truth is no-one knows and honestly the fact that Roberto Orci also doesn’t know doesn’t spell out some kind of grand crisis for Sony or the Spider-Man franchise.

Everyone calm down.

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