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Screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers are back in the spider's web.

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00:00Can't you just be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man?

00:05Spider-Man Homecoming screenwriters Chris McKenna and Eric Summers are swinging back to write the sequel.

00:12The duo are in final negotiations to return to the world of Peter Parker and write the follow-up

00:16to the Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios blockbuster. McKenna and Summers hail from the comedy and

00:21animation world, having been writer-producers on American Dad, Community, and The Mindy Project.

00:26The duo worked on the Lego Batman movie and impressed both Sony and Marvel with their

00:31Homecoming work, who then also hired them for the studio's Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle

00:36and Ant-Man and the Wasp movies, respectively.

00:39Homecoming, a resetting of the Sony Spider-Man franchise that places the new movies within

00:43the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was a major hit for the studio, winning over critics and comic book fans.

00:49It spun over $319 million domestically at the box office and $737 million worldwide.

00:56Sony and Marvel are hoping to keep many of the creative elements of Homecoming together and are

01:01already in talks to bring John Watts back to the director's chair. Tom Holland is also set to

01:06return as the web-slinging hero.

01:08Spider-Man Homecoming 2 is scheduled to hit theaters on July 5th, 2019.

01:12For the latest news on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, check out THR.com's comic book movie

01:17destination, Heat Vision. I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter News.