Dakota Johnson has confirmed that she is the latest lead actress joining Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. Recently reacting to the reports, Sony Pictures has cast the Fifty shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson as the clairvoyant Madame Web. The first female lead spin-off universe home to Tom Hardy’s Venom and Jared Leto’s Morbius. On Instagram, Johnson has reacted with a single emoji of a spider’s web.
As we know, in the comics of Marvel, the elderly Cassandra Webb is the blind psychic Madame Web, a younger character, former Spider-Woman named Julia Carpenter, who has adopted the identity of the sightless superhero capable of seeing the future.
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Sony has reportedly met with “a number of A-listers” along with Venom and Spider-Man: No Way Home producers for starring the first female superhero of the SSU. According to Deadline, the first who has reported that Johnson was in talk to star in Madame Web. According to the report, Sony has shortlisted and was further cut down just before the holidays when Johnson has emerged as the frontrunner.
The director of The Defenders and Jessica Jones named S.J. Clarkson has previously been tapped by Paramount to direct Star Trek 4 and the script is being written by duo Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless (Sony’s Morbius, 2017’s Power Rangers, Gods of Egypt).
Sony is also developing Kraven the Hunter with Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the titular role and an Olivia Wilde-directed female-led solo film suspected to be Spider-Woman. The Spidey spinoffs are set in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, previously known as the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters, joining Venom (2018), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), and Morbius (2022).Â
Spider-Man franchise producer Amy Pascal has said before crossing over Sony’s Spider-Man Universe and Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe in Spider-Man: No Way Home that the studio was focusing on ensuring its spinoffs that could stand alone separately from a shared cinematic universe.
“The most important thing is that each of these movies can stand on their own,” Pascal said in a 2019 Screen Rant interview when asked if Sony’s Morbius and Kraven the Hunter would exist in the same continuity as Tom Holland’s Spider-Man. “So I think the first thing for us to think about is: Venom has to stand on its own, [Spider-Man] has to stand on its own, Spider-Verse has to stand on its own. They all have to be great movies themselves. And then the possibilities are endless.”
The release date for Madame Web has not been set by Sony Pictures.
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