Madame Web hits theaters on February 14, 2024. © Sony Pictures
While things will be slowing down within Disney’s MCU this year, with only one feature film expected in theaters, Sony is working hard with several new Marvel films on the program. And it’s Madame Web who will open the ball.
Release date, story, production, casting, images… Here’s what you need to know about Madame Web.
The film’s story
After Venom and Morbius, a new character from the Spider-verse will arrive on our screens in the person of Cassandra Webb. In Marvel comics, she appeared for the first time during an adventure of Peter Parker in the comic book The Amazing Spider-Man in 1980.
But if in the comics Cassandra Webb has always had a secondary role, that is not the case in this new film which puts her center stage.
Madame Web thus follows Cassandra as she develops the ability to see the future. Forced to face revelations about her past, she forms a relationship with three young women with extraordinary destinies… if they manage to survive a deadly present.
Dakota Johnson in Madame Web. © Sony Pictures
Who is in charge of Madame Web ?
It’s director SJ Clarkson (Jessica Jones, Anatomy of a scandal) who is behind the camera for this feature film produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures and Marvel Entertainment.
On the screenplay, we find Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless (Morbius, Lost in Space), Claire Parker (Life on Mars) and SJ Clarkson.
The Italian Mauro Fiore (Avatar, Spider-man: No way home) is director of photography while the film’s soundtrack is by Swedish composer Johan Söderqvist (Anatomy of a scandal).
Cassandra Webb and her protégés. © Sony Pictures
What release date?
If the release date of the film was brought forward by two days in the United States at the time of the screenwriters’ strike which took place in 2023 in Hollywood, the French release of Madame Web hasn’t changed.
Thus, Marvel fans will be able to discover the feature film with Dakota Johnson from February 14, 2024. We also know that the film lasts 116 minutes, which makes it the longest in Sony’s Spider-Man universe.
Note that two other films from the Spider-verse are planned in theaters this year: Kraven the Hunterwith Aaron Taylor-Johnson, on August 28, and Venom 3still with Tom Hardy, on November 6.
Dakota Johnson plays Cassandra Webb. © Sony Pictures
What casting for Madame Web ?
In the Marvel comic books, Madame Web is an elderly woman, blind, paralyzed and connected to a machine that allows her to survive. SJ Clarkson’s film will present us with a different and above all younger version of the character, since it stars Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Gray) in the guise of a first aider with no apparent health problem.
Johnson stars alongside several potential Spider-women, including the star ofEuphoria Sydney Sweeney, and a major adversary played by French actor Tahar Rahim (A prophet).
Tahar Rahim in Madame Web. © Sony Pictures
Here is the updated main cast of the film:
- Dakota Johnson: Cassandra Webb / Madame Web
- Sydney Sweeney as Julia Cornwall
- Celeste O’Connor as Mattie Franklin
- Isabela Merced as Anya Corazon
- Tahar Rahim as Ezekiel Sims
- Emma Roberts as Mary Parker
- Adam Scott: role unknown
- Mike Epps: role unknown
- Zosia Mamet: role unknown
Images from the film
- A vignette on the character of Madame Web: