Dakota Johnson is set to appear in Sony’s Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The actor has signed on as Madame Web in the studio’s upcoming standalone superhero flick. The company is the first modern version of a Sony comic to cast a woman in the lead role.
A close source claimed that the project had not yet been finalized with Johnson, but it was confirmed that she would get the role.
SJ Clarkson, a writer-director best known for Netflix’s darker Marvel series “Jessica Jones” and MCU spin-off “The Defenders,” has been hired to direct the movie “Madame Web.”
Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the duo behind Jared Leto’s Creepy Vampire Morbius, will write the screenplay.
Madame Web is a major character in the tie-in universe, a confusing notion that Sony, Disney and Warner Bros have attempted to turn into on-screen experiences.
Indeed, the mind-blowing idea incorporates numerous versions of characters from distinct timelines that can wreak varying degrees of havoc on Sony’s “Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”
Spiderweb is often depicted as an elderly woman with myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disease that forces her to hook into a life support system that resembles a spider’s web in the “Spider-Man” comics.
“Madame Web” is one of many sprawling Spider-Man spin-offs as Sony creates its own low-key and growing film franchise, which is pinned down by villains like Venom, Morbius, and Kraven.
