Avi Arad is a prominent Hollywood producer best known for his involvement with the Spider-Man series. He is now incredibly despised by fans, nevertheless, for a variety of reasons. He shoved Venom into Sam Raimi‘s Spider-Man 3, and he also came up with all the confusing drivel in The Amazing Spider-Man duology.
On 1998’s Blade, he received his first executive producer credit. And on 2003’s Daredevil, he received his first legitimate full producing credit.
Since then, he has added his name to a number of films, including Into the Spider-Verse, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man. He obviously has experience with the wall crawler.
The Worst Deal
In an excerpt from Sean O’Connell’s book With Great Power that was posted on Reddit, Arad called the deal “the worst deal. “He accused Marvel’s Amy Pascal and Sony’s Michael Lynton of negotiating a deal purely for monetary benefit.
Avi Arad blasts the MCU Spider-Man films in new book – “They did it for the money. Terrible.”
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Arad states, “In the interview that is part of the book, it was a financial decision.” Terrible,
similar to giving your children up for adoption only because you don’t know what to do with them.
Fans Think That Avi Arad Is Bad For Spider-Man
Many fans and industry insiders feel that Avi Arad killed the two previous Spider-Man film franchises.
Even though Sam Raimi didn’t have any ideas for Venom in his original script for Spider-Man. Avi Arad purposefully compelled Sam to include the character.
Sony and Avi Arad treated Andrew Garfield poorly because he objected to the direction the 2014 sequel took.
Avi Arad, who was thinking about the merchandise sales, imposed characters and plot points that did not go well with the fans and the story.
After all, Spider-Man: No Way Home earned more than $1 billion, and that doesn’t include the additional $2 billion earned by the first two MCU standalone films.
After then, the character went on to appear in three more MCU films, which collectively grossed almost $6 billion.
It goes without saying that it was a huge financial victory for both sides. Additionally, it gave the Spider-Man IP fresh life by allowing him to engage with a bigger superhero universe and later share the stage with Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
