A few weeks back came the news that actress turned “Booksmart” director Olivia Wilde had signed on to co-write and helm a secret Marvel project for Sony Pictures.
Sources have reported it will be a “Spider-Woman” standalone film which she is co-writing with Katie Silberman, but Wilde only played coy at the time by posting a spider emoji and joking about her fear of Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige.
This week, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she kept quiet as to which character the film will focus on but does suggest Feige is involved in the process – even though the film is part of Sony’s S.P.U.M.C. universe as opposed to Disney’s semi-linked MCU one:
“All I can say is that this is by far the most exciting thing that’s happened to me because not only do I get to tell a story that… listen to me, trying to avoid Kevin Feige’s pellet gun. We are seeing this incredible influx of female directors and storytellers getting to take hold of this genre, this super hero space, and infuse it with their own perspective.
Not only do I get to tell the story as a director but I get to develop the story and that was what made it so incredible for me. I get to do it with thee aforementioned Katie Silverman, who, she and I love to do all sorts of things together but our love started with ‘Booksmart’. To know that we went from telling a story about female friendship in high school to this other stratosphere now is just super exciting.”
The project marks the second female-centric Marvel film currently in development at Sony Pictures, the other being S.J. Clarkson’s “Madame Webb”. A series adaptation of “Black Cat and Silver Sable” is also in development after the planned film from “The Old Guard” director Gina Prince-Blythewood stalled.
