Disney Plus’ new Spider-Man series is no longer standard in the MCU because it was “no fun” to limit its story

Marvel TV boss Brad Winderbaum says upcoming Marvel show Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is no longer aiming to become canon to the MCU as that would place restrictions on the Disney Plus show.

“It started with ‘Okay, it’s Spider-Man’s freshman year, he’s going to be a freshman, can we get away with this being completely in the MCU?’ And very early in the development process we realized how trapped we felt by that,” Winderbaum said in an interview with Live hero. “We couldn’t really use his rogues gallery, we couldn’t really use his origins. It honestly wasn’t any fun. We would have had to put so many boundaries on our story to make it fit into the canon.”