That trailer for the Miles Morales animated movie got me thinking about what I would’ve done had I, via some bizarre time-travelling shenanigans, been in charge of the MCU once they got the rights to Spider-Man back.
Instead of retroactively making the ASM movies part of the MCU, an idea I know was floated… I’d have made the original Sam Raimi movies part of the MCU and then bring Miles Morales in, with Tobey Maguire’s Peter as his mentor. The first MCU Spidey movie would’ve been about MaguirePeter, now in his forties and married to Mary Jane, passing down his mantle to Miles.
Convoluted? Sure! But I bet I could have made it work. You know, if I had had access to aforementioned time travel