“Madame Web” will be coming to big screens on Feb. 14, as the titular character will be making her debut in Sony's spider-centric multiverse. The creators have decided since not much is known about Web in her early life they will be creating a new origin story for her. This movie will follow Cassandra Webb, who is a paramedic who develops special abilities such as clairvoyance and her ability to see into the “spider world” and the future. This sets her on a path to save a group of girls, Julia Carpenter, Anya Corazon and Mattie Franklin, who are being targeted by Ezekiel Sims, a well-known ally of Spider-Man in the comics that Sony intends to change and make the villain of this film.
The comic book character Madame Web is the basis of the movie, but Sony has changed fundamental things about her character. In the comics, Cassandra Webb was suffering from a lifetime of blindness and years of neurological deterioration due to myasthenia gravis, a “chronic autoimmune disorder in which antibodies destroy the communication between nerves and muscles, resulting in weakness of the skeletal muscles,” according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Instead, the movie made her a character who can see and does not have these problems as of now. The group of girls that are being hunted in the comics have all taken the mantle of Spider-Girl or Spider-Woman. This leads Sims to kill them to change what happens to them, altering the future. Webb sees the death of these girls in visions and rushes to prevent them.
Among the cast of “Madame Web,” there are many well-known actresses such as Dakota Johnson, who will be playing Cassandra Webb. Johnson has been a part of many films in the past years, whether it be the main character or a side character. Sydney Sweeney will be taking on the role of Julia Carpenter, who in the comics is known as Spider-Woman. Sweeney has been in many different films and shows. She is best known for her roles in “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus.”
The director S.J. Clarkson is a director who has worked in both the UK and the US directing TV shows and films. Clarkson is best known for directing things such as “Anatomy of a Scandal” by Sarah Vaughan, which was in the Global Top 10 for most-watched English language series for five weeks on Netflix. She also directed an episode of the Emmy-winning series “Succession,” and she was also the lead director for the Defenders.