Sony Pushes Back “Madame Web” and Untitled Marvel Film Release Dates

According to Deadline, Sony Pictures has made some adjustments to its release calendar, specifically two Marvel titles, one of which is Madame Web.

What’s Happening:

  • The release date for Madame Web, a Spider-Man spinoff film starring Dakota Johnson, has been pushed back to October 6th, 2023 from its original release date of July 7th, 2023.
  • Meanwhile, an untitled Sony Marvel film has been moved to June 7th, 2024 from October 6th, 2023.

More on Madame Web:

  • Madame Web will be directed by S.J. Clarkson and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.
  • In the comics, Madame Web is key in the interconnected multiverse. In effect, the mind-bending theory involves multiple versions of characters from different timelines that, in the case of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: No Way Home, can intersect to varying degrees of chaos.
  • Web often appears as a side character in Spider-Man comics, where she is depicted as a blind, paralyzed elderly woman who has myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disorder requiring her to connect to a life support system resembling a spider web.
  • The character was introduced in issue 210 of “The Amazing Spider-Man” comic series in 1980, where she’s a clairvoyant mutant whose abilities prove to be greatly beneficial to Spider-Man and his fellow arachnid allies, like Spider-Woman.
  • Madame Web is just one of several Spider-Man related spinoffs in the works at Sony, as they look to diversify their Spidey projects away from the Marvel Cinematic Universe with movies such as Venom and Morbius.
  • The film will be released in theaters on October 6th, 2023 – on the heels of J.C. Chandor’s Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor Johnson, which is slated for release on January 13th.