Madame Web Interview: Why It's Not Attached to the Larger Spider-Man Universe
28In an industry packed with franchises focused on creating cinematic universes and ever-expanding storylines, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura preferred to go a different route with the latest installment of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, Madame Web. He and director S.J. Clarkson preferred that the film wasn’t heavily attached to the larger SSU and instead kept the focus on telling the title character’s story.
Dakota Johnson headlines the film as Cassie Web, a paramedic working in New York City who comes to learn she’s got the ability to see the future. When she has a vision of a mysterious sinister individual (Tahar Rahim) taking the lives of three young women (Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, and Celeste O’Connor), Cassie reluctantly takes it upon herself to keep them safe and use her visions to ensure they’re always one step ahead of the enemy.
With Madame Web celebrating its theatrical release this weekend, Di Bonaventura took the time to chat with me about the evolution of the screenplay, his top priorities when producing franchise movies, and loads more. You can read about it all in the interview transcript below, but I highly recommend watching the video version of our chat at the top of this article so you can enjoy my extreme facial expressions as an earthquake interrupts our conversation.
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