Dakota Johnson will play Madame Web in Sony’s Marvel Cinematic Universe

Dakota Johnson will join the Marvel Cinematic Universe! The Fifty Shades actress was cast to play Madame Web in Sony’s spin-off film. This film will be the first modern Sony cinecomics to feature a woman. Insiders close to the project stress that the agreement is not yet closed, but confirm that the actress is in talks to secure the role. 

SJ Clarkson, the writer, and the director are known for the Netflix series Jessica Jones and the spin-off The Defenders has been hired to direct the film. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the duo behind the film with Jared Leto Morbius, will write the script.

In the comics, Madame Web is the key to the multiverse, a somewhat confusing concept that Sony, Disney, and Warner Bros. have just begun to shape on the big screen. Web often appears as a secondary character in the Spider-Man comics, where she is portrayed as an elderly woman with myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disease that requires her to connect to a web-like life support system.

Dakota Johnson isn’t just Fifty Shades of Gray. During her brilliant career, the actress has ranged in genres, working alongside many prominent artists. We remember her in Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Suspiria, in the comedy Single but not too much, and in the moving Traveling towards a dream – The Peanut Butter Falcon with Shia Labeouf. 

The actress will soon be in theaters and on Netflix with director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s highly anticipated psychological drama The Lost Daughter, opposite Olivia Colman.