I want to know who greenlit a Madame Web movie and why. She's the most minor of characters, most prominently featured in the Fox Kids Spider-Man cartoon, where even as a kid I thought she was weird and bullshit. It's like if they tried to make a movie about the guy who shot Batman's parents, or about Clark Kent's boss or something. Both of those characters are way more notable than Madame Web but they were the best examples that I couls think of. man.
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I'm just trying to think like a harebrained Sony executive here but I'm imagining someone saw the trailers for Birds of Prey and decided they should do something like that but with spider ladies. And because they didn't have an already popular character like Harley Quinn who could be the leader or whatever they landed on Madame Web and then somehow decided it would be easier to sell if they named the movie on one character instead of the whole team
I was thinking that they were hoping that Spider-Man's popularity would be big enough to sell a tertiary character like Madame Web. And I don't know if they're not allowed to use "Spider-Man" in marketing or what but I feel like that wasn't emphasized at all in the the advertising for this movie
Yeah that part is baffling because the movie itself clearly wants to remind people it's connected to Spider-Man with all the Uncle Ben stuff and having Peter Parker be born at the end. Also as a side note the movie never once calls her character "Madame Web" or gives any character a superhero moniker in any way. Even the villain in spite of wearing a Spider-Man costume everywhere does not have a super villain name
I was baffled when you said that none of the girls get super powers or do anything heroic in the movie because it definitely felt implied that they would by the trailer I saw