Madame Web Trivia | 40 facts about the upcoming Marvel movie

«Madame Web» is an upcoming American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name.

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1. Madame Web is an upcoming American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name.
2. The movie was produced by Columbia Pictures and Di Bonaventura Pictures in association with Marvel Entertainment.
3. The movie will be distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
4. 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 centered around the Marvel character Madame Web.
5. Sony’s executive vice president Palak Patel was overseeing the project.
6. Kerem Sanga had previously written a draft for the film.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. After meeting with several “A-listers” for the title role, Sony narrowed their shortlist during December 2021 and January 2022.
10. 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.
11. In March, Sydney Sweeney was cast in the film alongside Johnson.
12. 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.
13. Kroll noted because of this that the film reportedly could “turn into something else”.
14. 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.
15. A month later, Sony gave Madame Web a release date of July 7, 2023, and confirmed Johnson and Sweeney would star in the film.
16. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who produced the film for Sony through his production company Di Bonaventura Pictures, 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.
17. Sydney Sweeney said the film was different from audiences’ expectations of superhero films.
18. It is intended to be the fourth film in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU).
19. The film is being directed by S. J. Clarkson, with a screenplay by the writing teams of Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless and Claire Parker and Clarkson, from a story by Kerem Sanga, Sazama, and Sharpless.
20. It stars Dakota Johnson in the title role, alongside Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, and Tahar Rahim.
21. Sony began development on a Madame Web film for its shared universe by September 2019, with Sharpless and Sazama hired to write a script.
22. Sanga had written an earlier draft.
23. Clarkson joined the project in May 2020.
24. Dakota Johnson was cast in early 2022, followed by additional castings in the following months and Parker joining later on.
25. Filming began in mid-July 2022, occurring in Boston and throughout Massachusetts until that September.
26. Shooting took place later in New York City by mid-October.
27. It wrapped before the end of the year.
28. Madame Web is scheduled to be released in the United States on February 14, 2024.
29. It was announced in March 2022 that actress Sydney Sweeney had joined the cast in an undisclosed role.
30. She told Variety that she’s been buying a lot of Spider-Man comic books in preparation.
31. In the comic books, before becoming Madame Web, Julia Carpenter had previously been Spider-Woman and Arachne.
32. This movie is based on the modern Madam Web in the Marvel comic books, Julia Carpenter.
33. Sydney Sweeney and Zosia Mamet previously starred in Under the Silver Lake (2018) together with previous Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield.
34. Dakota Johnson and Adam Scott previously starred in Black Mass (2015).
35. Johan Söderqvist was revealed to be composing the film’s score, after previously working with Clarkson on Anatomy of a Scandal (2022), by November 2023.
36. Principal photography began on July 11, 2022, in the Financial District of Boston through July 14, with scenes modeling 2000s New York City, including Chinatown, Manhattan.
37. Filming occurred using the working title Claire, with Mauro Fiore serving as cinematographer.
38. Filming was also expected to occur in Mexico.
39. Sabina Graves of Gizmodo opined that the other actresses could be portraying “more recognizable” characters such as Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman and Gwen Stacy in a “reimagining” of the Spider-Verse comic.
40. The film had been reported to be “something else under the guise” of the Madame Web character.