Madame Web arrives in theaters tomorrow, but if you decide to see Sony Pictures' latest Marvel movie, should you wait through the credits? Given the title character's importance to the wider Spider-Verse, most of you will surely be expecting some sort of crossover tease or tie-in.
Unfortunately, we can confirm that Madame Web does NOT have a post-credits scene.
We've been told from the start that this movie should be considered "standalone," so the fact Venom or, God help us, Morbius, doesn't show up in a stinger isn't overly shocking. Madame Web takes place in 2003 and while there were rumblings about it once serving as a prequel to The Amazing Spider-Man, that early 2000s setting may have made it harder than usual for Sony to plan ahead!
Madame Web producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura recently spoke with ComicBook.com and explained why there's nothing extra for fans after the credits.
"It wasn't a conscious decision to say 'We're not going going to do that since everybody else does it,' but we really liked having the ambiguity of it and having the promise of it that stood hand to hand where that other piece would then solidify it in a certain direction."
"We made a decision early on that the advantage in this story was not to attach it to all these other stories. We tip the hat. But really, we wanted to concentrate on a character journey, and I think some of the superhero fatigue that people talk about is because those movies are often not about the central character."
"And so we felt it was a stronger choice for us to say, 'This is Madame Web's story.' She comes out of the Spider-Man comic books, but it's not part of this other giant thing. It is its own standalone, which gave the freedom to really tell the character story."
You can check out our interviews with Madame Web director SJ Clarkson and star Tahar Rahim in the players below.
Meanwhile, in another universe...In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing's most enigmatic heroines.
The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who may have clairvoyant abilities. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.
SJ Clarkson directs from a screenplay she wrote with Claire Parker. Morbius scribes Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless are also expected to be credited for their work on the script, though it's currently unclear which draft they wrote. The movie's confirmed cast members include Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, and Adam Scott.
Madame Web arrives in theaters worldwide on February 14.