Celebrated TV director S.J. Clarkson (“Jessica Jones,” “Succession,” “Banshee”) has signed on to develop the first female-centric Marvel film set within the SPUMC (Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters) at Sony Pictures.
It’s not clear which character will be the focus, but insiders tell Variety that there is a strong possibility that the film will be based on the Madame Web comic-book character. Madame Web is as an elderly woman with myasthenia gravis who was connected to a life support system that looked like a spider web.
Due to her age and medical condition, Madame Web never actively fought any villains which suggests the project will be turned into something else. At the moment, there is no writer on board to pen the screenplay or a star attached to lead the movie.
There is reportedly a possibility that the studio is looking for an A-list actor to join and then hire a writer to develop the film around them, but nobody has committed or even met for the part yet.
The project will join the two “Venom” and “Morbius” films, which have already been shot, in the SPUMC alongside the Tom Holland-led “Spider-Man” films.
