The new Spider-Man spinoff film is set to be directed by Jessica Jones’ S.J. Clarkson, with actresses Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney attached as the main characters. Johnson will portray the Madame Web character, with Sweeney’s role still completely unknown as of now.
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Actress Celeste O’Connor has also been added to the film’s cast list, with her role undisclosed as well. With the recent news of O’Connor being attached to the film came the reveal of a new synopsis for Sony’s Madame Web. In the film description that Sony shared with Variety and Deadline, the brief synopsis says, “the film will be an origin story of the clairvoyant Madame Web, whose psychic abilities allow her to see within the spider world.”
In the comics, the Madame Web character appeared for the first time in 1981’s Amazing Spider-Man #210. In that story, Madame Web, also known as Cassandra Webb, was an elderly woman who worked with Spider-Man by using her clairvoyant vision powers. The character was born blind but has telepathic, clairvoyant, and precognitive mutant abilities. However, in the comics, there is also another Madame Web named Julia Carpenter, who becomes injected with a mix of venom and exotic plant extracts, giving Carpenter powers that were almost identical to Spider-Man’s.
With this just being a short snippet of the plot of the soon-to-be-released Madame Web film, it’s still unknown if Johnson will portray Cassandra Webb or Julia Carpenter, but considering her age it’s fair to assume she will portray Carpenter. Also taking Madame Web’s connection to the Spider-Man universe into consideration, it’s fair to assume that audiences will see different characters within the universe, like Tom Holland’s Spider-Man or even the introduction of other Spider-Man variations like Miles Morales, who has yet to be portrayed in live-action yet. Hopefully, this film will be better received than Sony’s more recent Spider-Man universe films like Morbius, which didn’t do too well, and the multiple Venom films that received mixed reviews from audiences.
Despite bad reviews from fans and critics, Sony continues to push out more Spidey content left and right, with Madame Web on its way and the Kraven the Hunter film that’s currently in production. Nonetheless, with a strong female cast in place so far, and all the actresses having strong dedicated fan bases, the theater seats are more than likely to be filled when Madame Web is released.
Madame Web hits theaters on July 7th, 2023.
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Source: Deadline
