A few years ago, Sony gave the SPIDER-MAN universe the good ol' college try with THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2. In that film, they set up what they'd hoped would be a SINISTER SIX film, which would've pre-empted DC in the whole "bad guys as leads" deal. Now that Spider-Man has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one would expect that Sony Pictures would abandon creating their own little universe.