Surprisingly, despite the wealth of Spider-Man movies in the past two decades, and even with multiple incarnations of the character among them, the most iconic Spider-Man comics have yet to be adapted for the big screen. There is a massive abundance of popular stories for Sony to harvest and adapt for future projects, and one of the all-time best is "The Clone Saga."
The arc ran throughout the mid-'90s, and true to its name, it introduced a number of clones of Parker, sewing some of the first seeds for what would eventually become the Spider-Verse. Perhaps more importantly for a production studio like Sony, the storyline's premise comes with a baked-in method to establish new, original Spider-Men in a plausible way without needing much, if any, commitment from Holland.
The '90s storyline was controversial (to put it diplomatically) for its decision to replace Parker as the main Spider-Man with Ben Reilly, an identical clone. Though Reilly proved unpopular as Spider-Man, he did find a second life as the Scarlet Spider (as did another Parker clone, Kaine), and both have joined Parker in his multiple "Spider-Verse" adventures.
Importantly, the inherent value in adapting "The Clone Saga" is independent of Reilly and Kaine and every other specific Spider-person: It comes from a feasible, canonical way for Holland to pass the torch or simply to set a few more torches alight beside his.
