Deadline is reporting that Sydney Sweeney has signed on to join Dakota Johnson in Sony Pictures’ Madame Web. It is unknown who Sweeney will be playing in the film.
In the comics, Madame Web is depicted as an elderly woman with myasthenia gravis and thus was connected to a life-support system that looked like a spider web. Due to her age and medical condition, Madame Web never actively fought any villains. For that reason, sources have stressed it’s possible the project could turn into something else. Insiders say due to her psychic sensory powers, she is essentially Sony’s version of Doctor Strange.
The film is being directed by S.J. Clarkson from a screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. Kerem Sanga penned a previous draft.
Sweeney is credited with HBO’s The White Lotus and Euphoria, The Voyeurs for Amazon, and Blumhouse’s Nocturne.
I actually went to see this last night, Ooooooh My, what a horrible movie, cringe status at best, I won't spoil anything but Good god, it was everything I thought it would be, felt so flat, CW, made for TV business here, lacked heart, lacked in all departments a true campy poorly executed film, Sony needs to quit this, it's a tragedy, I really wanted to find some redeeming quality's here in this movie, I could barely I liked like 5% of this movie and I think that was because I was enjoying sitting in a theatre watching a movie and that was it, it was a trainwreck.
New International promotional character posters...
On 1/19/2024 at 2:29 PM, AndyL said:Eh, give it some time. She might turn out to be. If Marvel wants to push her enough. Bipity Bopity Boom. Guess what. She was a Mutant the whole time. Redesign here costume a bit. Incorporate some X's into it. Create some new rando X-Team Pre-Cog unit and put her on it or let her lead it. Presto everyone loves her now. That's the new MO isn't it?
Exactly. There's nothing stopping them, if they wanted to
AndyL -
2024-01-19 @ 2:29 pm
On 1/17/2024 at 11:26 AM, Lord_Scareglow said:I swear I remember that she was a Mutant, I remember seeing some Trading Card factoid that claimed she was, I gotta find that, but I also think at one point she wasn't a mutant, I think they flip Flopped on that one. Maybe I'm just having a Mendela Effect moment in thinking she was a Mutant.
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According to CBR.com
https://www.cbr.com/spider-man-facts-trivia-madame-web/#mutant
Eh, give it some time. She might turn out to be. If Marvel wants to push her enough. Bipity Bopity Boom. Guess what. She was a Mutant the whole time. Redesign here costume a bit. Incorporate some X's into it. Create some new rando X-Team Pre-Cog unit and put her on it or let her lead it. Presto everyone loves her now. That's the new MO isn't it?
Sony Pictures Entertainment has unveiled a new featurette and a brand new collection of character promotional posters for Madame Web, set to hit theaters on February 14th. The character promotional posters showcase Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Celeste OConnor, Isabela Merced, and Tahar Rahim.
On 1/18/2024 at 10:01 AM, ADour said:I don't think a listicle from a site as infamous as CBR is a good primary source... What's more, that article alludes to the events of "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut" as something brought about by Madame Web's status as a mutant. But in the story, Black Tom tries to kidnap her only because she's a psychic, with no mention of her being a mutant, even with the X-Men being name-dropped a couple of times due to their past history with Marko.
The only place so far where I've found her being mentioned as a mutant is this page from Marvel Fact Files:
However, this magazine is produced by a third party (Eaglemoss Publications) with the Marvel license, so I'm willing to attribute this to a mistake, especially if Marvel's first-party handbooks don't mention her being a mutant at all.
I also found this talk page in the Marvel Wiki, claiming OHotMU writer Stuart Vandal has specificlaly debunked her being a mutant, even if the link used as a source is a dead link.
Yeah I remember the Juggernaut story, yeah That actually is the factoid page now that I remember seeing she was a mutant, like I said I dunno, guess they flip flopped or she was mistaken as a Mutant, either way. *Shrug* neither here nor there personally if shes a mutant or not,
ADour -
2024-01-18 @ 3:01 pm
On 1/17/2024 at 2:26 PM, Lord_Scareglow said:I swear I remember that she was a Mutant, I remember seeing some Trading Card factoid that claimed she was, I gotta find that, but I also think at one point she wasn't a mutant, I think they flip Flopped on that one. Maybe I'm just having a Mendela Effect moment in thinking she was a Mutant.
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According to CBR.com
https://www.cbr.com/spider-man-facts-trivia-madame-web/#mutant
I don't think a listicle from a site as infamous as CBR is a good primary source... What's more, that article alludes to the events of "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut" as something brought about by Madame Web's status as a mutant. But in the story, Black Tom tries to kidnap her only because she's a psychic, with no mention of her being a mutant, even with the X-Men being name-dropped a couple of times due to their past history with Marko.
The only place so far where I've found her being mentioned as a mutant is this page from Marvel Fact Files:
However, this magazine is produced by a third party (Eaglemoss Publications) with the Marvel license, so I'm willing to attribute this to a mistake, especially if Marvel's first-party handbooks don't mention her being a mutant at all.
I also found this talk page in the Marvel Wiki, claiming OHotMU writer Stuart Vandal has specificlaly debunked her being a mutant, even if the link used as a source is a dead link.
On 1/15/2024 at 9:46 PM, ADour said:I actually checked before making that joke, and I couldn't find that she was a mutant. No handbook entry attibutes her powers to being a mutant. Not even this recent article in Marvel.com called her one.
I swear I remember that she was a Mutant, I remember seeing some Trading Card factoid that claimed she was, I gotta find that, but I also think at one point she wasn't a mutant, I think they flip Flopped on that one. Maybe I'm just having a Mendela Effect moment in thinking she was a Mutant.
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According to CBR.com
https://www.cbr.com/spider-man-facts-trivia-madame-web/#mutant
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