Dakota Johnson Confirms Madame Web Role in Sony’s Spider-Man Spinoff

Dakota Johnson confirms she’s the latest lead actor to be caught in the web of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe.

Dakota Johnson Confirms Madame Web Role in Sony's Spider-Man Spinoff

Following Disney’s 2019 acquisition of the Fox film and TV properties, most of the rights to Marvel Comics characters are now all under one roof (Marvel Studios), but the biggest outlier is those Spider-Man-related characters that remain with Sony.

Sony Pictures continues to develop movies for these characters, which, as of 2022, will include Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage and the upcoming Morbius (4/1/2022) and Kraven the Hunter (1/13/2013).

Farther down the road, Sony is also actively developing feature films for Jackpot, Nightwatch, Venom 3, an Olivia Wilde-directed film (that might be Spider-Woman), and the animated sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part One (10/7/2022).

Another title that’s been mentioned in recent years is Madame Web, and this week, that project became much more high profile with the casting of Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson in the title role. In the comics, Madame Web was initially an elderly disabled woman with psychic powers.

More recently, the Madame Web title was passed to a younger, more action-friendly superhero (and former Spider-Woman) named Julia Carpenter, so it’s possible that Dakota Johnson will be playing that role (or a combination of the two).

The film was written by Morbius co-writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless and will be directed by frequent TV director S.J. Clarkson, whose credits include two episodes of Jessica Jones and a scrapped Game of Thrones prequel series pilot. Madame Web doesn’t have a release date yet, but Sony has two untitled “Spider-Man Universe” titles slated for 2023 on June 23 and October 6, so Madame Web might be one of those.

In related news, Dakota Johnson also recently starred in the Sundance Film Festival comedy Cha Cha Real Smooth, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and was picked up for distribution by Apple last week in a $15 million deal.

Sony Pictures has not set a release date for Madame Web.

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