Ever since Sony revealed it was engaged on a solo film for Madame Web, people have had questions. Why her? How is that this going to hook up with whichever Spider-Man is swinging round now?
In the event you’ve watched the trailer, one of many questions could also be when this film is about. Superhero films usually hold issues within the relative current, however Entertainment Weekly’s current preview notes that Madame Net is about in 2003. That successfully makes it the primary interval piece Spider-Man film we’ve ever gotten, and the primary mainstream superhero flick since 2020’s Surprise Lady 1984 to be set within the relative previous. (What’s it with women-led superhero films being set two or three a long time in the past?) And that is apparently a distinct 2003 than the one all of us lived via: at one level within the trailer, we see a New Yorker enjoying what’s clearly a PSP, which didn’t come out till 2005.
Why 2003? In accordance with leisure reporter Jeff Sneider, that’s a reshoots selection. The movie was initially set within the 90s, the place we’d be taught this was set on the earth of the Andrew Garfield-led Wonderful Spider-Man films. However Sneider claims Sony then determined to alter to over to Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, then axed the 90s out of the movie totally upon realizing the timelines didn’t match up. If true, it paints the movie’s existence in an excellent weirder mild than earlier than. Adam Scott’s rumored to be enjoying a younger Ben Parker, and he might not be the one method we be taught which universe that is set in. Both method, it’s most likely going to be a bit clunky, as a result of Sony’s method to worldbuilding in these films is…well, y’know.
Madame Net releases in theaters on February 14.
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