S. J. Clarkson’s beforehand introduced Marvel comics movie for Sony seems to have netted its lead: Dakota Johnson has been tapped to star as Madame Net. Deadline broke the information.
Madame Net is a part of Sony’s catalogue of Marvel characters, technically distinct from Marvel Studios, the Disney-owned subsidiary behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s reported that studio heads have been preoccupied with growing a female-driven property from their steady of comedian characters for a while. It’s no shock given Marvel Studios’ success with “Captain Marvel,” which grossed over $1 billion globally, and “Black Widow,” which final summer time scored the then-largest home field workplace opening for the reason that begin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s anticipated that this Madame Net movie portrayal will deviate from the character’s on-page origins, whereby she is depicted as an aged lady who — as a result of sickness — is linked to a life help system that appears like a spider net, and who by no means actively fights villains.
It’s not the one spider-y movie venture Sony has in growth — Olivia Wilde can be signed on to direct an untitled, female-centric Marvel movie venture for the studio, rumored to revolve across the character Spider-Girl.
Presently, Clarkson is engaged on an adaptation of Sarah Vaughan’s best-selling novel “Anatomy of a Scandal” in a directing and exec producer capability. She beforehand directed episodes of the Netflix Marvel collection “Jessica Jones” and “The Defenders,” in addition to “Succession” and “Orange Is the New Black.”
Johnson’s most up-to-date credit embody Nisha Ganatra’s “The Excessive Word,” and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s characteristic directorial debut, “The Misplaced Daughter,” and she or he can be seen in Carrie Cracknell’s upcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood
