It has been announced that the live-action series Silk: Spider Society that was in the works at Amazon is no longer moving forward.

The show was originally greenlit in November 2022 in a deal with Sony Pictures Television to develop a suite of shows based on Marvel characters that Sony controls. It was meant to debut on the MGM+ domestically before a global launch on Prime Video.

The Walking Dead alum Angela Kang was onboard as executive producer and showrunner, with Kang also signing a multi-year overall deal with Amazon MGM Studios in the process.

Kang will continue under that deal. Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal were also executive producers on the series. According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Sony will try to shop the series to other buyers.

It was reported a few months ago that Amazon had shutdown the writers’ room for “Silk,” with the writing staff released to pursue other work, though Kang remained attached to the project as showrunner.

At the time, it was revealed that Amazon wanted to refocus the show with a more male-skewing audience in mind, which would align with company’s success with shows like The Boys and the spinoff Gen V, Fallout, Reacher, and Jack Ryan.

Now, the Silk series could still happen as the project can be shopped around to other streamers.

The official logline released at the time of the series order stated that the show would follow Cindy Moon, described as “a Korean-American woman bitten by the same spider that bit Peter Parker, as she escapes imprisonment and searches for her missing family on her way to becoming the superhero known as Silk.”

How do you feel about this news? Are you hoping the series finds another home, or do you just want Sony to focus on their other Spider-Verse characters?

via: Variety