Amazon Orders Multiple Marvel-Sony Shows, Beginning With 'Silk: Spider Society' From 'Walking Dead' Alum Angela Kang - Variety

Amazon is officially moving guardant with aggregate live-action shows based connected the Marvel characters controlled by Sony, Variety has learned.

The archetypal bid nether the woody volition beryllium “Silk: Spider Society,” which was developed by “The Walking Dead” showrunner Angela Kang on with “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Kang volition service arsenic showrunner and enforcement shaper connected “Silk” arsenic portion of a caller multi-year wide tv woody she has signed with Amazon. Kang, Lord, and Miller each enforcement nutrient on with erstwhile Sony brag Amy Pascal. Sony Pictures Television is the studio, with Lord and Miller presently nether an wide woody there.

“Silk: Spider Society” volition debut domestically connected MGM+’s (nee Epix) linear transmission followed by a planetary motorboat connected Prime Video. The amusement is based connected characters created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos for Marvel Comics. It follows Cindy Moon, described arsenic “a Korean-American pistillate bitten by the aforesaid spider that spot Peter Parker, arsenic she escapes imprisonment and searches for her missing household connected her mode to becoming the superhero known arsenic Silk.”

“Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Sony’s caller live-action and animated reimagining of the Spider-Man franchise has represented immoderate of the astir dynamic superhero storytelling successful film,” said Jennifer Salke, caput of Amazon Studios. “Together with Angela Kang’s originative vision, we couldn’t beryllium much pleased to bring ‘Silk: Spider Society’ to our MGM+ and Prime Video customers.”

The “Silk” bid and the different shows based connected Sony-controlled Marvel characters were originally reported arsenic being successful the works backmost successful September 2020. At that time, Lauren Moon was penning “Silk,” portion it was reported successful 2021 that Tom Spezialy had joined the bid arsenic showrunner arsenic portion of his ain Amazon wide deal.

“We can’t hold to bring the adventures of Cindy Moon to life, acknowledgment to the originative imagination squad of Chris and Phil, Angela and Amy, on with our partners astatine Marvel and Amazon,” said Katherine Pope, president of Sony Pictures Television Studios. “We cognize this breathtaking bid with caller and never-before-seen characters and storylines volition wow audiences watching archetypal connected linear MGM+ and past astir the satellite connected Prime Video.”

“Angela is simply a pro’s pro whose position and creativity we greatly respect and admire,” added Lord and Miller. “She’s besides a hellhole of a batch of fun. She loves these characters and we consciousness truly fortunate for the accidental to enactment with her to bring Cindy Moon’s communicative to the world.”

Kang is champion known for her enactment connected “The Walking Dead.” She became a writer connected the amusement successful 2011 and co-executive shaper successful 2013. She was promoted to enforcement shaper and showrunner successful 2018 opening with the deed AMC series’ ninth season. “The Walking Dead” is airing its bid finale connected Nov. 20, with Kang besides co-creating a spinoff centered connected Norman Reedus’ character, Daryl Dixon. She launched her ain accumulation company, Kang & Co Entertainment, successful 2020.

She is repped by UTA, Literate, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole LLP.

“I’m beyond thrilled to beryllium joining the Amazon Studios household for this adjacent section of my career,” Kang said. “I look guardant to moving with the enforcement squad connected diverse, character-forward, watercooler shows for a planetary assemblage and americium truthful excited to dive successful to my archetypal challenge—bringing Korean-American superhero Silk to beingness connected screen.”

It is chartless astatine this clip which different Marvel characters volition beryllium featured successful the Amazon shows, though Sony presently controls implicit 900 specified characters associated with the Spider-Man franchise.

Sony has released aggregate Spider-Man live-action films successful the past and presently works with Marvel Studios connected the rebooted movie franchise starring Tom Holland via Columbia Pictures. Sony is besides down “Into the Spider-Verse,” which won the Academy Award for champion animated movie successful 2019. Two sequels to that movie are presently successful the works, with the archetypal — “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” — owed retired successful theaters successful June 2023.

To date, Sony has besides released the live-action films “Venom” and its sequel “Let There Be Carnage” starring Tom Hardy, arsenic good arsenic “Morbius” starring Jared Leto. A 3rd “Venom” movie is presently successful development, portion Sony is besides astatine enactment connected movie versions of characters similar “Kraven the Hunter” starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and “Madame Web” starring Dakota Johnson, among respective others.