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1. Like the initial start-up of the website, the Morbius writers Sazama/Sharpless are not credited on the film at all:
I have a feeling that they may have wrote an initial draft for the film but said draft was trashed after the response of "Intriguing...." and only credited because weird WGA rules. The most infamous example of odd WGA rules is probably Scary Movie with crediting Friedberg/Seltzer despite them not working on the actual film at all.
2. Julia's surname is Cornwall and not Carpenter:
Not that critical story wise, but a pretty cool detail considering it was Julia's maiden name before marrying Larry Carpenter.
Clarkson initially reached out to Johnson about playing the titular web-weaver in 2021, shortly after the actress had finished filming The Lost Daughter. Her initial reaction, Johnson admits, was skepticism: “I got sent this script, and I was like, ‘I don’t know about me being a superhero.’” But the more she read, the more she found herself drawn to Cassandra.
“I was sort of mystified by her powers,” Johnson adds. “I felt like, ‘Oh, I really would love to see that superhero. I would love to see a young woman whose superpower is her mind.’”
Madame Web is part of Sony’s large stable of Spider-Man characters, and at first glance, she may seem like an odd choice for a solo movie: Denny O’Neil and John Romita Jr. created Cassandra in 1980 as a supporting character in the Spider-Man comics, introducing her as a blind and paralyzed elderly woman with telepathic abilities. In Marvel comics, she spends most of her time hooked up to a web-like life support system, guiding other heroes with her psychic powers. But Johnson and Clarkson say they wanted to, ahem, weave their own version of Cassie’s journey, and they describe Madame Web as an “origin story” for the character.
“I really love the idea of somebody who can see into the future, but until they can really understand their past and appreciate where they are, they can’t use that power,” Clarkson explains. “Without wanting to overload it with profundity, I thought that’s an amazing thing to explore: If we understand our past and see where we are in the present, we can then make better choices for the future.”
Clarkson herself is no stranger to superhero fare, having directed episodes of Netflix’s Marvel series Jessica Jones and The Defenders. The British director admits that she never considered herself a particular superhero fan until working on Jessica Jones, and she says she wanted to bring a similar grounded, female-led vibe to Madame Web.
“I loved the psychological, cerebral nature,” Clarkson says. “Not to sound too wanky about it, but it’s about what’s going on in [Cassie’s] head and her grappling with that. Is she going insane? Is this real? She’s battling with that within herself and trying to understand it.”
“It was really important to me that she’s really human and grounded in reality, and that her life feels like, ‘Oh, I can relate to that,’” Johnson adds. “Sometimes it’s hard to relate to someone shooting lasers out of their eyes.” The actress pauses, then smiles. “I mean, not for me,” she deadpans. “I obviously do that all the time.”
Madame Web comes as Sony continues to build its ever-growing universe of Marvel characters: So far, the studio has released films featuring Tom Hardy’s Venom and Jared Leto’s Morbius, and up next, Aaron Taylor-Johnson will star in a Kraven the Hunter movie (out Aug. 30). Still, despite all those interconnected webs, Clarkson wanted to structure Madame Web as its own self-contained story. The director explains that unlike her clairvoyant heroine, she chose to focus not on the future but on the present.
“She’s definitely in a standalone world,” Clarkson adds. “I was able to just have free rein and let the movie be what it needed to be, as opposed to trying to force it into something else. That was a gift, in a way, to be able to take something and bring a fresh and I hope original take to it.”
Still, centering your story on a prophetic hero can make for a complicated shooting schedule. Clarkson explains that the crew would often have to shoot versions of the same scene over and over again, each with slightly different outcomes depending on Cassie’s visions. Johnson says she frequently lost track of which scenes were real and which were inside Cassie’s head, and she’d often have to check in with Clarkson for a refresher.
“I trusted her so much,” Johnson says. “I’ve never really done a movie where you are on a blue screen, and there’s fake explosions going off, and someone’s going, ‘Explosion!’ and you act like there’s an explosion. That to me was absolutely psychotic. I was like, ‘I don’t know if this is going to be good at all! I hope that I did an okay job!’ But I trusted her. She works so hard, and she has not taken her eyes off this movie since we started.”
Madame Web Reshoots Reportedly Removed Major Spider-Man Connections
Insider Jeff Sneider reports that Sony's upcoming Marvel movie Madame Web removed connections to two previous Spider-Man iterations during reshoots.
Madame Web reportedly could have featured an appearance from Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man before Sony elected to remove all connections to the fan-favorite web-slinger.
According to insider Jeff Sneider on The Hot Mic (via X), Sony initially wanted Garfield to be the main Spider-Man in its Spider-Man Universe, beginning with Madame Web. However, those plans were later scrapped and Tom Holland's Spider-Man was chosen as the movie's Wall-Crawler. Sneider continued that all mentions of either Spider-Man were then removed during reshoots after Sony realized that the timelines didn't add up for either version to appear. Madame Web was apparently going to be set in the 1990s/early 2000s until reshoots removed any reference to the movie taking place in a particular year.
I saw a trailer during an NFL game, and it kept showing this evil Spider-Man-type character in a subway, but he wasn't really doing anything. Almost like he might be in the movie for a few brief moments but they pieced together those few moments into the trailer as if he's in the whole movie.
Interested in hearing what the reviews are for this one, as it's not drawing me in to see it yet. If it's an entertaining movie, I'll consider it on home video down the road.
I legit wish Sony would stop diluting the character even more than they already have and just leave it up to Marvel.
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They have a license to print money but don't know what do with it unless KF is holding their hands.
Yeah because clearly butchering Devil's Reign to fit a Spidey that wasn't even part of the event is the better move. They already made Peter a whitewashed Miles in the films, might as well turn him into Great Value Ben Reilly eh?
Also, it's Spider-Man. You can't dilute that guy.
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Originally Posted by RageATL
According to insider Jeff Sneider on The Hot Mic (via X), Sony initially wanted Garfield to be the main Spider-Man in its Spider-Man Universe, beginning with Madame Web. However, those plans were later scrapped and Tom Holland's Spider-Man was chosen as the movie's Wall-Crawler. Sneider continued that all mentions of either Spider-Man were then removed during reshoots after Sony realized that the timelines didn't add up for either version to appear. Madame Web was apparently going to be set in the 1990s/early 2000s until reshoots removed any reference to the movie taking place in a particular year.
I'm sorry, how the hell do people believe Sneider here? Not only has he been proven to be full of it numerous time, but Tom was always planned to be involved ever since Venom 2018 originally shot a cameo with him.
This is like Multiverse of Madness leaks all over again where people just hear what they want to hear.
Usually earlier year movies in January through March can be used as write offs if a loss in theaters with low attendance. I guess they could've went for a direct to video release too.
Not sure how this will do in theaters. Who the audience will be that shows up to support this story/film. Will it do well? I don't know the story.
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