Sony Pictures has been trying to get a Sinister Six movie off the ground for years, and the closest the project came to making it to the screen was when Drew Goddard was attached to write and direct a spin-off of the now defunct The Amazing Spider-Man franchise.

Goddard had actually completed his script before the movie was scrapped, and the story would reportedly have focused on a group of villains doing battle with Andrew Garfield's wall-crawler before ultimately finding redemption.

Garfield spoke about his involvement with the project during a 2021 interview with Collider.

"I don't know how close it got, but I definitely had a few meetings, and it was really exciting. I've got to say, because I love Drew so much, and I love Cabin in the Woods, and the other stuff that he's made. We just got on like a house on fire. I loved his vision,...