New trailer for 'Madame Web

Sony has released the first trailer for “Madame Web,” starring Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney, a suspense thriller set in the studio’s universe of Marvel characters.

Johnson steps into the leading role of Cassandra Webb, a Manhattan paramedic who may have clairvoyant abilities — which allow her to see into the future and the interconnected spider world. In the trailer, she meets and forges a partnership with a trio of young women — including Sweeney’s Julia Carpenter, who later takes on the mantle of Spider-Woman in the comics — to understand her past and survive the deadly present.

In the comic books, Web is a blind, elderly woman who suffers from myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder that forces her to use a life support system. She guides others rather than risking her own life in conflict.

An official synopsis for the movie implies Madame Web takes place in another universe, separate from the Venom movies, the 2022 supervillain film Morbius and the Tom Holland-led Spider-Man series.

Using her newfound powers as a force for good in the clip, Cassandra attempts to rescue the girls at a local diner before she's confronted by a murderous Spider-Man dressed in a black suit who chokes one of the girls and viciously stabs Cassandra in the stomach. She then wakes up outside the diner and remarks, "Let's try that again."

the trailer does tease how each of the women in Cassandra’s orbit like Julia Carpenter (Sydney Sweeney), Mattie Franklin (Celeste O’Connor), and Anya Corazon (Isabela Merced) are destined to become various spider-themed heroes like in Marvel’s comics. As has been the case with Sony’s Venom movies, it’s still kind of weird to see all of these projects steeped in Spider-Man lore without Spider-Man actually being a part of the story. But with the studio gearing up for a third Spider-Verse movie and there being another big war on the horizon over in the MCU, it makes a certain kind of sense that Madame Web will be stuffed with new costumed faces when it hits theaters on February 14th, 2024.

This is perhaps the most perplexing thing about the Madame Web trailer: It’s full of wildly interesting and truly strange Spider-Man characters, yet it spends its three minute runtime explaining how it’s about a woman who can see the future over and over again, as if it were some run-of-the-mill 2000s thriller. Given Sony’s hit-or-miss track record with its Spider-villain movies so far, that may be an accurate representation — but there’s plenty of room here to surprise. Too bad we can’t see the future.

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Sarah H

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