What if Spider-Man stalked women? Sony Pictures has seemingly provided a look at that with its first trailer for Madame Web, a new superhero film that will tell the origin story of Cassandra Webb, a character that Marvel first introduced in its classic Amazing Spider-Man comics.
According to a bio of the character posted by Marvel.com, Webb is best known for being a blind mutant with psychic abilities, helping her so far as to figure out Peter Parker’s secret identify, although it’s unclear if any of that will go down in Sony’s live-action interpretation of the hero, played by Fifty Shades actress Dakota Johnson:
Though Cassandra Webb suffered from a lifetime of blindness and many years of neurological deterioration due to myasthenia gravis, she compensated with her profound psychic abilities, establishing herself as a medium. Using these powers, Madame Web discovered Peter Parker’s secret identity when Spider-Man rescued one of her students who had been kidnapped during a scam at the Daily Globe newspaper.
Webb is also known for being bound to a web-like chair that doubles as a life-support system to keep her alive, and while Johnson’s character appears to be running around just fine in the film, that may not be the case at the end of it.
Here’s Sony’s official synopsis for Madame Web, which was developed in collaboration with Marvel:
In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing’s most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who may have clairvoyant abilities. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures… if they can all survive a deadly present.
Madame Web is listed as “coming soon,” exclusively to theaters.