Dakota Johnson will become Sony's new marvel superhero

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Dakota Johnson will star in Madame Web, the Marvel Universe film derived from the Spider-Man saga and whose rights are owned by Sony Pictures. According to an exclusive from the specialized newspaper Deadline, Johnson, known for appearing in The Social Network, The Lost Daughter or in the Fifty Shades of Gray trilogy, is negotiating -through her presentation agency- with Sony the main role of her in the movie.

This would be one more film in development for the Sony saga. The studio recently had to delay Morbius again, which was its next release, and last year announced that it is also developing a Kraven the Huntsman movie, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the character. It is known that director Olivia Wilde was also commissioned to make a film about a female superhero, which according to rumors is Spider-Woman.

Details about how they will acquire the plot and script of Madame Web, which will become the first Marvel film based on a female superhero since Sony Pictures has the rights to exploit the franchise, are still unknown.

The film will be directed by S.J. Clarkson, who most recently executive produced Anatomy of a Scandal, an adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name and turned into a television series distributed by Netflix.

The worldwide success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is already the fourth highest-grossing film in US history with a total collection of 735 million dollars, has led Sony to continue betting on the saga with this spin -off.

Madame Web is a clairvoyant who has helped Peter Parker solve some of his most difficult cases. Born blind and afflicted with myasthenia gravis (an autoimmune disease that causes severe muscle weakness), the heroine relies on a spiderweb-like life support device.