Sony is still trying to build out its Marvel / Spider-Man theatrical franchise, and has reportedly brought on S.J. Clarkson to direct a “female-centric” film within the franchise, according to Variety.
Variety notes that there’s little information about the project as of yet: no word on what the characters will be—although it reports that sources say that it could be based on Madame Web—and that there isn’t a writer or actor attached as of yet.
While Marvel Studios has taken the lead with its characters—and the two studios share custody of Spider-Man himself—Sony still holds the rights to a large number of characters in Spider-Man’s orbit, and has been working to build out its own interconnected franchise for them. In 2018, the studio released Venom, starring Tom Hardy, and plans for a sequel in 2021, Venom: Let There Be Carnage. The studio also plans to release Morbius in February 2021 (moved from its original July 30th, 2020 release date).
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Along the way, it’s developed films based on Nightwatch, Kraven the Hunter, The Sinister Six, Madame Web, as well as a handful of others. The studio is also working on a sequel and spinoffs to its 2018 film Into the Spider-Verse, which utilized a multiverse concept. The studio was also working on Silver & Black, which would have seen Silver Sable and Black Cat team up, with Gina Prince-Bythewood (Beyond the Lights) set to direct, but that project has since been canceled. However, it seems as though it’s been resurrected for a television project.
Clearly, there’s a lot of potential for Clarkson to jump into here: Sony holds a ton of characters, and while it hasn’t yet had Marvel’s success with an overarching cinematic universe, it’s still a dream worth chasing. Clarkson, for her part, has a long track record with television projects (She directed the BBC’s Life on Mars, NBC’s Heroes, Netflix’s Jessica Jones and The Defenders, and others), and had worked on a high-profile Game of Thrones prequel that was ultimately axed, and had signed on to direct Star Trek 4, although she eventually left that project.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it Silver Sable?
@1 – Fixed, thanks!
Huh. Most of my experience with Madam Webb is her popping up to give Spider-Man cryptic hints about his adventures drifting into cosmic and/or mystical territory. I’d be interested to see how a character like that anchors her own show. She could host an anthology, I guess, like the Watcher with What-If.
Must be spider-woman
My guess is Squirrel Girl and her crew!
I wonder if Spider-Gwen will be one of the stars in this particular film?
Sony announced Madam Web movie last year. Sony also announced Sliver Sable Black Cat teamup.
#3 guy :yes Madame Web is a supporting chacater who functions for Spider Peoples benefit. She allows the Web Of Time and Destiny to interact with them. But Kravens wife killed her and passed the passes onto onr of the Spiderwoman. But that Spiderwoman lost the powers.
Without the Spider People there’s no point in her being above a third rate chacater. She’s the type of person you have giving tutorials and expostiom or granting access to new places. Would make for a boring protaginst
@Misty306, does Sony have the rights to Squirrel Girl? I don’t think of her as being Spider-Man or FF-related (though I guess Kraven and Doctor Doom are both high profile characters from those franchises and characters SG has interacted with a ton).
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I don’t have a perfect understanding of how the various character rights get broken down and attached to each property, so anything’s possible, but Squirrel Girl debuted in a team-up with Iron Man (in an anthology book) and properly became a recurring character in the Great Lakes Avengers (later the Great Lakes X-men, Great Lakes Champions, and Great Lakes Initiative, just to add some confusion- but never the Great Lakes Fantastic Four or Great Lakes Spider-man and His Amazing Great Lakes Friends, AFAIK) book, so my best guess would be that for these purposes she’s either an Avengers character or a miscellaneous Marvel character not falling under a specific character library.
But, again, just guessing.
I’d feel better about this if they picked the character before building the film.