MADAME WEB Featurette Spotlights New Footage; Director S.J. Clarkson Teases Possible MCU Connections

MADAME WEB Featurette Spotlights New Footage; Director S.J. Clarkson Teases Possible MCU Connections MADAME WEB Featurette Spotlights New Footage; Director S.J. Clarkson Teases Possible MCU Connections

Sony Pictures has shared a new featurette for Madame Web, which includes interviews with the main cast members along with snippets of new footage. Director S.J. Clarkson also hints at some MCU connections.

By MarkCassidy - Feb 06, 2024 12:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Madame Web

Sony Pictures' upcoming Madame Web is part of the studio's "SMU," but we've heard conflicting reports about its connections to other movies in the franchise, and the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Last week, Variety published a piece which mentioned that “there may be some hesitation to emphasize the interconnectedness of these movies” due to the recent underperformances of MCU instalments and Warner Bros.' imminent DCU revamp, but does that mean Madame Web will be completely standalone in nature?

Director S.J. Clarkson was asked about any potential ties to the winder MCU in a recent interview with Total Film, and while she was hesitant to reveal anything outright, she did seem to hint that the movie may include at least a few nods or Easter Eggs.

"I'm really excited for you to see the film and the potential of what it could be, that's for sure," the filmmaker tells the site. "But I would probably say watch this space."

Check out a new featurette spotlighting interviews with the main cast and some snippets of new footage below.

Dakota Johnson stars as the clairvoyant Cassandra Webb, who uses her abilities to save a group of young woman, played by Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, and Celeste O’Connor, from a villainous Spider-Man lookalike known as Ezekiel Simms.

The girls Webb is doing her best to keep safe, Julia Carpenter, Mattie Franklin and Anya Corazón, are all destined to become heroes with Spider-like powers of their own.

Sony also has a third Venom movie slated for Nov. 8, 2024, and Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, coming on Aug. 30, 2024. El Muerto, which was set to star Bad Bunny, has reportedly been dropped from the schedule.

"'Meanwhile, in another universe...'" reads the official synopsis, "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."

S.J. Clarkson, who also helmed Marvel’s Jessica Jones and The Defenders, directs from a script by Matt Sazama, Kerem Sazama and Burk Sharpless. Adam Merims executive produced.

Madame Web will swing into theaters on Feb. 14, 2024.

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DocSpock
DocSpock - 2/6/2024, 12:17 PM

He should be considering his crash & burn connections to get ahead of the release of this sure honker.

Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 2/6/2024, 12:18 PM
The vaguest answer ever in hopes of getting more people to see it 😂😂
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 2/6/2024, 2:29 PM
@Nightwing1015 - that's the name of the game
Deklipz
Deklipz - 2/6/2024, 12:20 PM
It’s cool that the director is excited for people to see the film but it would be cooler if she made a film people would want to actually see.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 2/6/2024, 1:50 PM
@Deklipz - our skepticism aside, how do you know she didn’t?
Deklipz
Deklipz - 2/6/2024, 2:06 PM
@MyCoolYoung - because nothing about it looks even remotely interesting and based on the history of Sonys not-Venom spider films nobody is going to give a shit.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 2/7/2024, 2:32 PM
@Deklipz - that’s a good inference but at the end of the day we can’t make those claims without seeing it. We literally don’t know what she made except the, admittedly lackluster, looking trailers. They still aren’t the movies
Deklipz
Deklipz - 2/7/2024, 6:16 PM
@MyCoolYoung - I can confidently make the claim that it has nothing of interest. The acting looks bad, the fights look bad, I don’t like the costumes, and I don’t like the cast.
PC04
PC04 - 2/6/2024, 12:20 PM
this is a non-story if I've ever seen one
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 2/6/2024, 2:31 PM
@PC04 - haven't you been on this site before?
non-stories are what keeps this ship upright.
PC04
PC04 - 2/6/2024, 2:53 PM
@lazlodaytona - Been here for years. I keep coming back because I hate myself.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 2/6/2024, 3:29 PM
@PC04 - that's funny. unless you're being truthfully blunt. That would make me sit in the middle of an empty swimming pool during February just crying like a little b1tch.
PC04
PC04 - 2/6/2024, 3:35 PM
@lazlodaytona - sounds like a good idea. Make it an above ground pool for extra pitty.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 2/6/2024, 3:36 PM
@PC04 - :D
Knightrider
Knightrider - 2/6/2024, 12:21 PM
Yeah, if this has multiverse elements then it can be connected without being connected
Vigor
Vigor - 2/6/2024, 12:24 PM
I know we all expect to see the foxmen alongside MCU characters for secret wars. And I know Toby and Garfield are hinted to be in secret wars too.

But it never occurred to me that all these new Sony spider-villainverse characters may show up as well. And perhaps that's why Sony seems to be making so many of these movies. By the time of secret wars we would have kraven, venom, madame web characters, morbius... and all those bozos could be on battle world alongside Wesley snipes blade or Eric bana's hulk
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/6/2024, 1:49 PM
@Vigor - Secret Wars needs to be bigger than one movie.
We need Battleworld TV series to back it up. Maybe a years worth of 'em or more. So many realms to be explored that could all culminate in everyone from those shows converging at Doomgard for a big final battle in Secret Wars part 2.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 2/6/2024, 2:32 PM
@Vigor - you had me at "Wesley Snipes' Blade."
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 2/6/2024, 12:32 PM
Maybe we'll get a multiverse version of Parker's landlord in this one.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 2/6/2024, 2:35 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - and hopefully this guy too.



Lots of versions of him.
TheLobster
TheLobster - 2/6/2024, 12:37 PM
Sony removing all Spider-Man connectivity to this is [frick]ing hilarious. I’ve said it a few times now on this site but it deserves repeating: I hope Sony loses MILLIONS on this film. Would be great if they lost a cool 150m altogether tbh.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/6/2024, 1:40 PM
@TheLobster - If it drives down the worth of the IP to Sony and means that they will sell it back to Marvel for a reasonable price then that is worth hoping for.
TheLobster
TheLobster - 2/6/2024, 3:12 PM
@ObserverIO - I would love for that to happen but Sony it wayyyyyy too stubborn to ever do that. It’s also the only valuable piece of IP they own so they can’t let it go lmao

However; if this flops bad - maybe they’ll stop with this dumb Sony expanded Spider-Man verse (without a Spider-Man) shit?
dagenspear
dagenspear - 2/6/2024, 3:31 PM
@ObserverIO -
@TheLobster - Why?
TheLobster
TheLobster - 2/9/2024, 8:47 PM
@dagenspear - I said in my previous comment; I want Sony to stop making these shitty Spider-Man spin off films that don’t even feature a single Spider-Man.

They’re terrible films and more importantly they actively fuel comic book fatigue which is bad for business. Sony needs to learn and the only thing that will make them listen is substantial loss of profits.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 2/9/2024, 9:32 PM
@TheLobster - I don't speak to MCU doing better things with them. I don't see them doing spider-verse level things.
TheLobster
TheLobster - 2/10/2024, 12:13 AM
@dagenspear - MCU’s glory days are well behind them for sure but they’re still better than anything Sony is putting out on their own aside from the Into/Across The Spiderverse
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 2/6/2024, 12:39 PM


Some of the action seems cool atleast.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 2/6/2024, 12:40 PM
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bobevanz
bobevanz - 2/6/2024, 12:42 PM
And to all the naysayers, YES the Morbius writers are still credited.. back to back L's. Must be nepo's because there sure as hell isn't any talent
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 2/6/2024, 12:52 PM
@bobevanz - oi now you leave this marvel movie alone, it's got b00bies in them.
VamP5659
VamP5659 - 2/6/2024, 1:03 PM
@harryba11zack - The greatest defense anyone could give this movie.... And the main reason I'm considering watching it.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/6/2024, 1:37 PM
@VamP5659 - *main reasons
VamP5659
VamP5659 - 2/6/2024, 1:39 PM
@ObserverIO - Oh yeah... two, heavy soft and pale reasons lol.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 2/6/2024, 3:30 PM
@bobevanz - Wouldn't that be yaysayers?
VamP5659
VamP5659 - 2/6/2024, 12:47 PM
The only connection to the MCU this film should have is the disappointment that Sydney Sweeney isn't the MCU's Felicia Hardy.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 2/6/2024, 12:52 PM
@VamP5659 - that could have been cool but I think Anya Taylor Joy could be a good Felicia too…

VamP5659
VamP5659 - 2/6/2024, 1:01 PM
@TheVisionary25 - I've heard that casting being thrown around a bit. Anya for sure has the looks for Felicia and it would be awesome to see her play a full on Bond Girl esque femme fatale.

However, with the rumors of her either being a genderbent Silver Surfer or Frankie Raye, we still get to see her in something technically skimpy (just a CG silhouette of her own body, still counts tho lol).
dagenspear
dagenspear - 2/6/2024, 3:29 PM
@VamP5659 - I don't think she fits with Tom Holland's Peter.
LSHF
LSHF - 2/6/2024, 10:06 PM
@TheVisionary25 - She looks better as she gets older.
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