Thread:Shabook/@comment-27496405-20170618200705/@comment-2106279-20170621135409

Not to mention just last week, Feige addressed the question and cited that Venom was not a part of the MCU. In the interview, he looked blind-sided, as if he was not expecting it at all.

Yet because she's a Sony exec, many people are running with ther words as fact. and I'm pretty sure Venom and Silver Sable pages are going to pop up. I would suggest that the pages should be prevented from creation (the same level of protection Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has).

Sony seems like they are trying to piggyback off of Marvel and I think Feige realizes the cons of the deal. The deal is that Marvel is allowed to use Spider-Man in their films (Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War) without paying millions of dollars in licensing fees, and in turn they would produce solo movies themselves while Sony would keep the box office profits. Meaning Marvel Studios pays for the making of the film, and Sony keeps 100% of the rewards.

But the issue with the deal is that Spider-Man: Homecoming, despite being a MCU movie, is legally a Sony Pictures movie, meaning they can use clips from it and reference it in any other Sony movie. Meaning if they show the Staten Island Ferry incident or the Damage Control stuff or just video footage of MCU Spider-Man swinging around on a TV in the Venom film, Sony is effectively making their movies a part of the MCU, regardless of whether or not the MCU acknowledges them.