Last year, Sony TV and Amazon Prime Video announced they would be collaborating on a number of Spider-Man spin-off series not set in their movie universe, including projects like venom And Morbius. Coincidentally, one of the first projects in development from both Sony TV and Amazon Silk: Spider Society and that is written and produced by The walking dead Angela Kang, who will also serve as showrunner. There are no new announcements about it Silk: Spider Society or another series in the works, but a Sony TV executive has news. In a new interview with deadlineKatherine Pope revealed that their Spider-Man spin-offs are a “massive focus”.

“It’s definitely a huge focus for all of us here, and for me in particular. I was already a fan of Angela Kang so I’m really excited to be working with her on Silk. She’s just brilliant and a total pro Pope revealed. “This is also an example of working very closely with Tom Rothman and Sanford Panitch, and the film group, to make sure we’re aligned with them and performing at the same level as well. They’ve done such an incredible job with that franchise, so we want to make sure we perform at that level.”

When the series was announced, Kang released a statement saying, “I am beyond excited to be joining the Amazon Studios family for this next chapter of my career. , watercooler shows to a global audience and I am so excited to be coming to life on screen in my first defiant Korean-American superhero Silk,”

Silk is Cindy Moon, a character who debuted in Amazing Spider-Man comics in mid-2010, created by writer Dan Slott and artist Humberto Ramos.

In the retcon origin story, Cindy was a Korean-American girl present at the class trip where Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider; after Peter was bitten, Cindy was also bitten and gained her own version of spider-themed abilities. However, when Cindy was unable to control her powers, she was taken by a future mentor (Ezekiel) and spent years training, before being imprisoned in a facility with other Spider-powered warriors, attempting to hide from the Multiversal stalker. of all Spider warriors, Morlun. When Peter Parker/Spider-Man finally defeated Morlun, Cindy was released back into the world and became the hero Silk.

Amazon Prime describes the series as follows: “Based on characters created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos and inspired by the Marvel comics, Silk: Spider Society follows Cindy Moon, a Korean-American woman who is bitten by the same spider that killed Peter. Parker snapped as she escapes prison and searches for her missing family on her way to becoming the superhero known as Silk.

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