S. J. Clarkson, Director Madame WebExplains why the Spider-Women characters aren’t fully fleshed out in the movie.
The superhero film starring Dakota Johnson is the origin story of Cassandra “Cassie” Webb, later known as Madame Webb. However, the film introduces Julia Cornwall (Sydney Sweeney), Mattie Franklin (Celeste O’Connor), and Aina Corazon (Isabella Merced), who eventually become different iterations of Spider-Women.
Despite showing glimpses of their future as superheroes in the Spider-Man universe, audiences won’t get to see how they got their superpowers, which was intentional.
“Well, I thought it would be a bit greedy to write four origin stories,” Clarkson said. Character book In an interview. “It’s not really fair, is it? I got to share it. Come on. I mean, first of all, it’s Madame Web, right? But I hope the interesting thing about it is that this is just a tease. And I think the girls’ origin story, We have, we hope, given a glimpse into the spirit of their identity.
Clarkson continued: “We tried to stick to the spirit of the comic books, tap into that and see who they are and get a little bit of their spunk and a little bit of their personality. But I think that’s a lot of story to tell in one (film). I think it wouldn’t be fair for any of them to kind of try It’s crowbar or cramming everything into one movie. So I think it’s Madame Web, and here’s kind of an evolution of something else underneath it.
The director doubled down, saying it was “probably very greedy” of her to take on the task of giving all these characters their origin stories. Clarkson said fans might be telling her to “get out” after she was also the director of the Marvel series Jessica Jones.
“No, give someone else a chance,” Clarkson added of the possibility of fans protesting.