With great wheat cakes, come great responsibility.

That's my suggested tagline for Sony if they go through with their latest rumored plan to extend the Spider-Man franchise beyond its typical boundaries. The studio is already working on a 'Sinister Six' movie that would put the Friendly Neighborhood Wall-Crawler's villains front and center in their own story; according to Latino Review, they're also considering a movie focused on Aunt May, Spider-Man's lovable caretaker, played in the current 'Amazing Spider-Man' franchise by the great Sally Field.

The latest rumor wouldn't have Field donning spandex; Latino Review says Sony is interested in "a movie about Aunt May as a youth, before she was shouldered with the responsibility of raising Peter Parker" that would have the tone of an "espionage story in the vein of AMC's 'Mad Men.'"

A story about not-yet-Aunt May is not unprecedented; in the early 2000s, Marvel launched a new mature-readers imprint called Epic with a comic named 'Trouble' by 'Kick-Ass' writer Mark Millar. It didn't involve espionage (it was more of a teen soap opera), but it did feature May (and the soon-to-be-Uncle Ben), along with Peter Parker's parents, Richard and Mary. The espionage stuff sounds vaguely like a famous flashback issue from 'Untold Tales Of Spider-Man' that followed Richard and Mary Parker as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. So it's not the craziest and worst idea in the world; at least Sony's not working on a spinoff about zombie Uncle Ben. Aunt May, Agent of N.O.T.S.H.I.E.L.D. (because Marvel owns the rights to the real S.H.I.E.L.D.) sounds highly unlikely to me, but who knows? I would have bet my house they'd never make a 'Guardians of the Galaxy' movie.

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