Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Entertainment today released a new trailer for the upcoming film Madame Web, featuring an all-female cast of Spider-Heroes and a glimpse at the story’s villain.
Entertainment based on Marvel’s ‘Spider-verse’ has proven to be an unstoppable force, and now Sony Entertainment seems to be building on its Sony Spider-man Universe (SSU). With the recent release of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 to rave reviews, Kraven the Hunter on the way, and Tom Hardy set to reprise his role as anti-hero duo Venom/Eddie Brock in the third installment of Venom, and it’s safe to say there will be plenty of Spider-related content in the near future. But the strangest trailer set in the Spider-verse has just been released, and it’s for a more niche Marvel hero, Madame Web, and the premonition-based trailer can be seen below.
The trailer gives fans a good look at the cast of characters in action and shows Madame Web (played by Dakota Johnson) appearing to use a whole different side of clairvoyant spider-sense by resetting a checkpoint after a fight ends with her on the pointy end of a knife fight. The film’s villain is Ezekiel “Zeke” Sims, portrayed by Tahar Rahim, and his motives seem to be based on the mutations that certain types of spider bites can grant the receiver.
The film is directed by Netflix Original Jessica Jones director S.J. Clarkson, and the rest of the cast is rounded out by Sydney Sweeney playing Julia Carpenter/Spider-Woman, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, and Adam Scott. While it feels like Sony Entertainment is moving all of the pieces together to potentially create a live-action Spider-verse, Madame Web may be the first we see how the films start to weave into each other, aside from the after-credits scene of the sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage where the symbiote interacts with a Spider-man laden news story.
Madame Web is set to hit theatres on February 16, 2024.
