Regardless of the whole lack of curiosity from your entire world, Sony is urgent forward with its Spider-Man-less Spider-Man universe in 2024 with the discharge of two — depend ’em, two — new spinoffs about characters Peter Parker sometimes crosses paths with within the comics.
Particularly, we’ve got Dakota Johnson within the fifty shades of pointless Madame Internet due in February after which former Quicksilver Aaron Taylor-Johnson in August’s Kraven the Hunter (we didn’t see that coming). By some means, we stay in a timeline the place an El Muerto film will be in improvement however not one the place Sony has bothered to convey again among the best components of Marvel’s Spider-Man trilogy: Jake Gyllenhaal because the grasp of manipulation, the man who spoke concerning the multiverse earlier than it was cool, Mysterio.
Fortunately, Gyllenhaal is as busy as he’s ever been, and his newest undertaking affords an unlikely strategy to scratch the itch for these lacking Marvel’s Mysterio.
Street Home? Gimme a gritty Mysterio spinoff film, Sony
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Street Home, a mid-budget motion thriller primarily based on the cult traditional Nineteen Eighties film of the identical title starring Patrick Swayze. Gyllenhaal performs the brilliantly named Elwood Dalton — from Donnie Darko to Quentin Beck, he’s certain had a profession stuffed with characters with colourful names. Dalton is a former UFC fighter who winds up working as a bouncer at a roadhouse, solely to find the place isn’t what it appears.
Social media goes loopy for the film, which guarantees extra of Gyllenhaal in his Southpaw mode, ably supported by The Suicide Squad fave Daniela Melchior, Billy “I Play That Annoying Man In That Movie You Like” Magnussen, and precise MMA legend Conor McGregor.
No matter its high quality, at the very least we all know Street Home will likely be higher than the final time director Doug Liman labored with a Spider-Man star — 2021’s chaotic YA sci-fi Chaos Strolling. Even when, mockingly, Liman will likely be boycotting his personal film because of Amazon’s resolution to sling it onto streaming.
What Street Home is actually bringing into sharp focus, although, is simply how a lot the Marvel multiverse has wasted Gyllenhaal’s abilities to this point. I’m simply spitballing right here, however think about a Joker-like solo film primarily based round a extra grounded Mysterio variant. Some form of violent, street-level vigilante who beats up of us in parking tons with a fishbowl on his head. Don’t misinform me, you realize you’d be extra intrigued to look at that than both Madame Internet or Kraven.
I depart you with the awe-inspiring sight of Jake Gyllenhaal doing his finest Brad Pitt in Combat Membership impression. Catch Street Home on Prime Video from March 21.