With several popular spider-heroines set to appear in Madame Web, Dakota Johnson’s titular character also gets a proper suit in new Marvel fan art.
Summary
- Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is set for a big year in 2024 with three new films, including Madame Web featuring Dakota Johnson as the iconic Spider-Man heroine.
- The first trailer for Madame Web reveals an origin story, showing Cassandra as a younger character with clairvoyant abilities, forging relationships with three young women.
- The movie introduces Julia Carpenter, Mattie Franklin, and Anya Corazon as Spider-Women, while Ezekiel Sims emerges as the central antagonist, wearing his own Spider-Man-like costume.
New Marvel fan art imagines what Dakota Johnson’s Cassandra Webb might look like with her own costume in the Madame Web movie. Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is about to have its biggest year in 2024, as Sony Pictures have not one, but three new films being released that will help flesh out the franchise. One of them will be Madame Web, focusing on the ambiguous Spider-Man heroine who will be making her live-action debut as Johnson is set to portray her.
As the first Madame Web movie trailer dropped on November 15, 2023, the world finally got a first look at the first 2024 installment in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. With several spider-heroines showing up in the movie, Arifinity shared new artwork of what Johnson may look like as the Marvel character when fully suited up.
While most Spider-Man and Marvel fans are used to seeing Cassandra as an elderly woman, Madame Web will be an origin story instead, depicting her at an earlier point in her life. Outside of her live-action debut, Madame Web has only appeared in various Spider-Man animated properties, with Spider-Man: The Animated Series still being the one show to have featured her the most.
Everything We Know About Madame Web
Madame Web will see Cassandra taking three young women under her wing as she discovers that she has clairvoyant abilities. Described by Sony Pictures as being able to look “within the spider world,” Madame Web takes place in the early 2000s, as Cassandra starts out as a paramedic before she learns about her powers. Sony Pictures tease that Cassandra will be “forced to confront revelations about her past,” as she “forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures…if they can all survive a deadly present.”
The Madame Web trailer gave a first look at Julia Carpenter, Mattie Franklin, and Anya Corazon as the two Spider-Women and Araña, respectively, as this movie will also be their live-action debut. The central antagonist of Madame Web will be Ezekiel Sims, who is traditionally a supporting Spider-Man character but is instead being depicted as a villain. Donning his own Spider-Man-looking costume, Ezekiel is coming after Julia, Mattie, and Anya, as they have “powerful futures” that somehow clash with his.
Sony Pictures is reportedly looking at Madame Web as their response to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Doctor Strange within Sony’s Spider-Man Universe.
It will be exciting to see how Madame Web impacts the larger Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, as this could be a massive piece for the franchise to move forward. Many have been wondering what the ultimate endgame is for this continuity, as there is still no Peter Parker in a franchise that is specifically Spider-Man labeled, and perhaps this is the film that will finally shed some light on the mystery. Hopefully, another Madame Web trailer will drop before the movie opens in theaters in February 2024.
