RUMOR: Sony Pictures In Early Stages Of Developing A Live-Action SPIDER-GWEN Movie

RUMOR: Sony Pictures In Early Stages Of Developing A Live-Action SPIDER-GWEN Movie

Spider-Gwen is unquestionably the Spider-Verse franchise's breakout character, and a new rumour claims Sony Pictures has decided to move forward with a live-action movie revolving around Gwen Stacy...

By JoshWilding - May 09, 2024 03:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man

Madame Web should have been a game-changer for Sony Pictures. While Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage were box office hits, neither received overly glowing reviews and the awful Morbius left any possible goodwill fans had for the studio bleeding out on the floor. 

With Madame Web billed as a standalone adventure and a movie that finally put the spotlight on some of the heroes from Spider-Man's world, it looked like the stage was being set for a new female-led superhero franchise. Three Spider-Women swinging into the action under the watchful eye of Cassandra Webb seemed like a genius move, but when it hit theaters...well, you know the rest.

One of the biggest critical and commercial flops the genre has ever seen, Madame Web made it clear changes need to be made. It's likely too late for Kraven the Hunter and Venom: The Last Dance, but Sony might finally be about to take a step in the right direction. 

According to scooper @MyTimeToShineH, a Spider-Gwen live-action movie is in the early stages of development at the studio. We don't have any more than that to go on, but if Spider-Man is going to remain off-limits because he's in the MCU, she's arguably the best possible choice of character to focus on. 

Many of you will argue that Miles Morales should be a bigger priority, but it's widely been reported that he's going to appear in Spider-Man 4, setting the stage for the MCU to focus on two Spider-Men in this next trilogy. 

Spider-Gwen first appeared in Edge of Spider-Verse #2 in 2014. Created by writer Jason Latour and artist Robbi Rodriguez, this Gwen Stacy hails from an alternate universe where Gwen Stacy was bitten by a radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker.

In her reality, Peter Parker becomes the Lizard after injecting himself with a serum, and Gwen is forced to confront and defeat him as Spider-Woman. This tragic event weighs heavily on Gwen's conscience, shaping her motivations and actions as a superhero.

Bryce Dallas Howard played Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3, with Emma Stone taking over the role in The Amazing Spider-Man. In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the character is voiced by Hawkeye star Hailee Steinfeld. 

While Stone and Steinfeld are often inserted into fan art depicting Spider-Gwen, we wouldn't bank on either of them getting the call to play her as the web-slinger is meant to be a teenager, not a woman in her 20s or 30s.

Stay tuned for updates.

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zeon00
zeon00 - 5/9/2024, 4:00 AM
No
dagenspear
dagenspear - 5/9/2024, 4:02 AM
@zeon00 - Why?
JDL
JDL - 5/9/2024, 5:09 AM
@dagenspear - It dilutes the uniqueness of the spiderman charcter. C. MacLeod had it right in 1986 and nothing has changed to make that any less right today.
Toecutter
Toecutter - 5/9/2024, 5:09 AM
@dagenspear - Because of these:

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Comicmoviejunki
Comicmoviejunki - 5/9/2024, 7:38 AM
@dagenspear - you seriously have to ask?
dagenspear
dagenspear - 5/9/2024, 8:46 AM
@Toecutter - Is that the reason the OP doesn't want it?
Slotherin
Slotherin - 5/9/2024, 8:47 AM
@JDL - what was that?
dagenspear
dagenspear - 5/9/2024, 8:48 AM
@JDL - Who decides that it dilutes the character? If Spidey can be so easily diluted, I don't think that's a strong defense of the character all by itself.
JDL
JDL - 5/9/2024, 9:07 AM
@dagenspear - Obviously it's an individual thing. For me, barring a deliberate course correction (as in we started off wrong, oops) the original is it. YMMV.
cubrn
cubrn - 5/9/2024, 9:08 AM
@dagenspear - The OP doesn't want it because they don't want female superheroes front and center; they want hot bodied, sweaty, throbbing man meat in spandex tussling together on the floor. Superheroines, by contrast, are gay.
blitzburgh
blitzburgh - 5/9/2024, 12:21 PM
@dagenspear - BECAUSE IT'S SONY. HOW MANY TIMES CAN THEY SHIT THE BED FOR YOU
dagenspear
dagenspear - 5/9/2024, 4:04 AM
At least this is something that'd make some more sense to me than Madame Web and El Muerto of all things.
Conquistador
Conquistador - 5/9/2024, 4:17 AM
I don't get Sony, if they want to milk the franchise, give us a female hero and be seperate from MCU at least give us something we'll pay to watch...

Spider-Girl is perfect... they can get Tobey back in a supporting role, Raimi wants to make another one, they can tie it to the OG trilogy (nostalgia and all that) but give us something new that has potential to go on...) they can focus on that instead of putting out half asses shit.

Waiting to see the announcement that Kraven is going straight to digital....on the flip side if ATJ gets announced as Bond, you bet they'll bring up that release
Slotherin
Slotherin - 5/9/2024, 8:49 AM
@UniqNo - true. That would be probably the best way to go
soberchimera
soberchimera - 5/9/2024, 9:09 AM
@UniqNo - Because Spider-Verse...
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 5/9/2024, 4:17 AM
This is like making a Val Zod Superman movie except Spidergwen is helluva lot more popular.
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 5/9/2024, 4:53 AM
is futa on this? can hunter play her?
Twenty23Three
Twenty23Three - 5/9/2024, 5:07 AM
Miles must be tied up in the MCU deal somehow. Otherwise why would they make live action movies about every single (non Peter Parker) character, except for the one who is guaranteed to make bank?
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 5/9/2024, 5:27 AM
@Twenty23Three - I have a strong belief that as part of the deal they can't use Spider-Man in live-action movies outside of the MCU, which probably applies to Miles as well. This is the only thing that would explain all this pointless spinoffs that go out of their way to not reference Spider-Man in a direct manner. If they had their own Spider-Man in their universe certainly these movies would be at least making more money.
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 5/9/2024, 5:22 AM
Please throw the towel in, Sony. Stick to video games. You suck at making Spider-man movies post 2004.
Razorface1
Razorface1 - 5/10/2024, 10:38 AM
@ProfessorWhy - oh like raimis were any good.
Mugens
Mugens - 5/9/2024, 5:55 AM
Yeah I would be a little interested if it wasn't for the fact that Sony would be making this. Let's face the facts. Sony will continue to milk the Spidey library for as long as they can up until such time that Marvel can reaquire the sole rights. And we're all worse off for it.
Godzilla2000Zer
Godzilla2000Zer - 5/9/2024, 5:57 AM
Surprised they didn't do it earlier if true
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 5/9/2024, 6:38 AM
@Godzilla2000Zer - would rather have had this then SUMC.
Godzilla2000Zer
Godzilla2000Zer - 5/9/2024, 8:21 AM
@TheVisionary25 - Yeah Spider People is a better concept then just villain origin stories.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 5/9/2024, 9:38 AM
@Godzilla2000Zer - yep

Those villains could have been saved for the Spidey films where you could tell stories about Spider Man noir etc.
Godzilla2000Zer
Godzilla2000Zer - 5/9/2024, 9:41 AM
@TheVisionary25 - Just makes Sony all the more stupid
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/9/2024, 6:27 AM
Of course they are, smh, I guess it's time to burn my Spider-Gwen hoodie.

Please buy Spider-Man back Marvel.

Hey Sony, if you sell Spider-Man you can afford Paramount. How bout dat?! TMNT, Transformers, Star Trek, you won't even need Madame Web, Spider-Gwen and Morbius anymore!
Mrtoke
Mrtoke - 5/9/2024, 6:28 AM
Kathryn Newton is being wasted on Cassie Lang unfortunately.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 5/9/2024, 7:28 AM
@Mrtoke - Not sure what she has to do with these news, but she was literally the worst thing on Ant-Man 3 and that's saying something. Where is all this "potential" going? I've only seeing here in Detective Pikachu, in which she was ok, and this movie, in which she was horrible.
Mrtoke
Mrtoke - 5/9/2024, 7:32 AM
@Urubrodi - context clues is saying she'd be a good fit for Gwen
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 5/9/2024, 9:35 AM
@Mrtoke - She'd be such a horrible fit imo that it didn't even cross my mind that you'd be implying that.
Mrtoke
Mrtoke - 5/9/2024, 2:19 PM
@Urubrodi - maybe but I feel like Sony wouldn't hesitate to see what she can do. But if you wanna go younger, I'd suggest any of the Alyn Lind sisters.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 5/9/2024, 3:26 PM
@Mrtoke - That'd be a better pick yeah, but I imagine they going a bit older.
Mrtoke
Mrtoke - 5/9/2024, 3:36 PM
@Urubrodi - they're in their early 20's so I think that's the ideal age for a Spider Gwen movie. Older would be an established Spider Gwen if they go that route.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 5/9/2024, 7:30 AM
I would be more for it if it was animated as opposed to live action…

The live action SUMC films (from what i have seen) haven’t worked for me but the Spiderverse movies have and seem to be where Sonys strength lies in terms of cbms right now.

Anyway , if true then I hope it works out well because it’s a cool character & world imo…

It’s got some interesting takes such as Matt Murdock as The Kingpin which I would be down to see!!.

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RedFury
RedFury - 5/9/2024, 8:12 AM
@TheVisionary25 - they would be smart to park a dump truck full of money outside the creators of the animated spiderman films homes, and let them head all the Sony lead Spiderman stuff. Then they may see some success come their way.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 5/9/2024, 8:52 AM
@TheVisionary25 - can they even use Matt in live action though without Marvel's permission?
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