Umcoming movie Madame Web 2024

Madame Web (film)

Madame Web is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures and Di Bonaventura Pictures. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is intended to be the fourth film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU). The film is being directed by S. J. Clarkson from a screenplay by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, and stars Dakota Johnson in the title role, alongside Sydney Sweeney.

Sony began development on a Madame Web film for its shared universe by September 2019, with Sharpless and Sazama hired to write a script. Clarkson joined the project in May 2020, and Johnson was cast in early 2022, followed by additional castings in the following months. Filming began in mid-July 2022, occurring in Boston and throughout Massachusetts until that September, before shooting in New York City by mid-October, and wrapped before the end of the year.

 

Development

After their work on the Marvel Comics-based film Morbius (2022), part of Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU), Sony Pictures hired Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless in September 2019 to write a script centred around the Marvel character Madame Web. Sony's executive vice president Palak Patel was overseeing the project. Kerem Sanga had previously written a draft for the film. In May 2020, S. J. Clarkson was hired to develop and direct Sony's first female-centric Marvel film, which was reported to be Madame Web.  The studio was looking to attach a prominent actress such as Charlize Theron or Amy Adams to the project, before hiring a new writer to further develop the film with her in mind.  After meeting with several "A-listers" for the title role, Sony narrowed their shortlist between December 2021 and January 2022. Dakota Johnson became the frontrunner by the end of 2021 and was in talks to star as Madame Web by early February. Clarkson was confirmed to be directing Madame Web at that time.  In March, Sydney Sweeney was cast in the film alongside Johnson.  Justin Kroll of Deadline Hollywood described the project as being "Sony's version of Doctor Strange" due to Madame Web's comic book abilities, though he noted that the film could be departing from the source material since the comics version of Madame Web is an elderly woman, named Cassandra Webb, connected to a life-support system that looks like a spider web. Kroll noted because of this that the film reportedly could "turn into something else".  Grant Hermanns of Screen Rant noted speculation on whether Johnson was playing Cassandra Webb or the younger Julia Carpenter, who was the second character in the comics to be known as Madame Web.  A month later, Sony gave Madame Web a release date of July 7, 2023, and confirmed Johnson and Sweeney would star in the film.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura serves as a producer on the film, through his production company Di Bonaventura Pictures, with Erik Howsam and Patel also serving as producers.  Di Bonaventura described the film as a thriller and called the titular character's clairvoyance a "tricky skill set" that was not likely to be used for an action film. He said the studio chose to keep details on the film secretive given the character was not well known to general audiences.  Sweeney said the film was different from audiences' expectations of superhero films.

Cast

Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb / Madame Web: a clairvoyant whose psychic abilities allow her to see within the "spider world"

Sydney Sweeney as Julia Carpenter / Spider-Woman

Additionally, Celeste O'Connor,[2] Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim,[5] Emma Roberts, Mike Epps, Adam Scott, and Zosia Mamet have been cast in undisclosed roles.

Release

Madame Web is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on February 14, 2024, in IMAX.  It was previously scheduled for July 7, 2023, October 6, 2023, and then on February 16, 2024.

In December 2022, Sony signed a long-term deal with the Canadian-based streaming service Crave for their films starting in April 2023, following the film's theatrical and home media windows. Crave signed for the "pay-one" window streaming rights, which included Madame Web.

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