Updated 7:50 p.m. with additional information.
“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” co-writer Roberto Orci has been tapped to write an as-yet untitled Marvel film for Sony, TheWrap has exclusively learned.
Details about the project or which specific Marvel character will be used are currently being kept under wraps. The Orci project would be a part of Sony’s Marvel universe, which is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but does include Marvel Comics properties such as “Nightwatch,” “Silk,” “Venom,” “Silver and Black,” and “Morbius the Living Vampire.”
While initial indications were that the character would be related to other Sony Marvel films like Venom” that are connected to “Spider-Man,” an individual with knowledge tells thewrap the property comes from a different corner of the Marvel universe that Sony has access to.