Sorry, web-heads, you’ll have to wait another three months to see Madame Web
The hotly-anticipated addition to Sony’s Venom-verse of Spider-Man characters got bumped
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Sony’s stringing us along again.
After delaying Venom: Let There Be Carnage several times, then delaying Morbius only to re-release after it bombed, Sony’s giving the old Sony bump to Madame Web. Per Variety, the movie, primed initially to open in the middle of summer 2023, is moving to the fall. So instead, they’re dropping a horror movie in summer, when it would probably make sense to release it in the fall. Anyway, Madame Web will now open on October 6, 2023, while Insidious 5 will take the Web’s original spot in July 2023.
We assume that Madame Web was always destined to be a placeholder because why in God’s name would Sony sandwich one of their fake Spider-Man movies in between Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 and The Marvels? Answer: they’re not.
Insidious 5 will play as counter-programing to whatever superhero movie is in theaters and Indiana Jones 5. Though, it’s fair to assume that people will have already seen, disliked, and forgotten about Indiana Jones 5 by the time Insidious 5 rolls to town. That’s how things go in “Hot Fourth Sequel Summer.”
We still don’t know what to make of Madame Web. Lime enthusiast and Jane Austen lightning rod Dakota Johnson stars as the mystical Madame Web, who is kind of like Spider-Man’s personal fortune teller. Of course, how you make a movie about Spider-Man’s spiritual adviser without Spider-Man is beyond us (but probably not beyond Madame Web). We assume they figured it out. If not, they did assemble a strong cast, including Sydney Sweeney, Emma Roberts, Tahir Rahim, Mike Epps, and Adam Scott, to distract us. Finally, a movie that allows us to wonder how Adam Scott would’ve been as Spider-Man.
As for the “currently untitled Sony and Marvel Universe film” in Variety’s report, it’s been delayed until June 2024. We can only assume that that’s a Spider-Man movie, but at the end of the day, aren’t they all just Spider-Man movies.
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Hotly anticipated?
I believe they’re employing a form of expression known as “sarcasm”.
Alternate headline:
Sony Plebs Shred Madame Web’s Feb Debut
I kind of just hope Sony goes full weirdo with this one even if it doesn’t all work. Marvel is getting less exciting, but I also don’t want the early aughts formula of Morbius.
Even money’s on an attempt to basically turn Madame Web into the Sony Spider-verse Doctor Strange, complete with knock-off ‘mirror dimension’ effects.
i hope it’s just emma roberts, dakota johnson and sydney sweeney taking turns reading the phone book.
They could go with her messed up backstory, you know the whole am I a mutated spider or not. I’m hoping it’s more of a detective story (since Jessica Drew has been a PI in the comics). I’d be much more interested if it’s something more like the Ant-Man movies as far as not being a classic superhero movie.
Oh man, the heartbreak!
In some ways heartbreak created Madame Web. Possibly, we cannot know until it’s out on video.
That’s ok I’m still busy Morbin, it’s gonna take a couple extra months to switch over to Madamin mode.
Releasing July 2030: MadaMorbius
What out, if you morb to much you will go blind and grow hair on your palms
That’s an urban legend: You actually grow energy suckers!
Gotta get that plasma somehow
Sony, stop trying to make the Venom-verse happen. No one cares.
Is that megaphone so we can all hear him going “MMMPH-MMM-PH-MMMMPH-MPH!” loud ‘n clear?
I wasn’t really excited for this one anyway, but the inclusion of Emma Roberts seals it for me. I am sure she is nice in real life, but everything I have ever seen her in she plays someone who is exhaustingly unlikable.
Wait, is she Herminone? No that’s Watson. Gwen Stacy? No, Stone. The spice girl? No, Bunton. Nanny McFee? No, Thompson.Hollywood has too many Emmas.
I wasn’t really excited for this one anyway, but the inclusion of Emma Roberts seals it for me. I am sure she is nice in real life, but everything I have ever seen her in she plays someone who is exhaustingly unlikable.
i thought sweeney was madame web? also when did they announce adam scott?!
How do all these new AVC writers have the same dumb, not-even-pretending-to-try snark? Just putting lazy air quotes on everything is a piss-poor version of irony, kids…