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After the Madame Web disaster, where does Sony’s Spider-Verse go from here?
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 11 March - 10:12
Rather than concentrate on niche side stories, perhaps Marvel should start making films about the webslinger himself once more
If there was a superhero with the power to make good comic book movies, one can imagine Sony would be all over trying to buy up the rights. Outside its splendid animated Spider-Man films and a team-up with Marvel on the recent trilogy of films starring Tom Holland’s masked webslinger, the studio has struggled. This is largely because it has inexplicably tried to manufacture interest in an assortment of superheroes and antiheroes who are part of Spidey’s world in the comics, but who the wider viewing public doesn’t know from Adam, the latest being Dakota Johnson’s Madame Web.
The one-time Fifty Shades of Grey star has been in the news this week after she effectively torpedoed her own movie by telling Bustle it was not the film she had signed up for, and hinted it had in any case been pretty much made by committee.
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