Although Spider-Man has joined the Disney-owned Marvel Cinematic Universe, various supporting characters from Spider-Man comics are still part of a group called the Sony Spider-Man Universe. This confusing situation means that while Sony movies like Venom and Morbius may feature Spider-Man-like superheroes and supervillains, they don’t feature Spidey himself. . Later this year, he also has two more of his SSU movies scheduled for release, Venom 3 and Kraven the Hunter. Meanwhile, in Madame Web, Dakota Johnson plays the conveniently named Cassandra Webb, a New York paramedic who has developed the ability to see the future. This puts her at odds with a Spider-Man-like villain (Tahar Rahim) who tries to kill her three Spider-Man-like women (Sidney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, and Isabella Merced). That the film will be more successful than the first trailer, which was famous for its awkward line, “I was in the Amazon with her mother right before she died, when she was researching spiders.” I want to pray.
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