Dakota Johnson Can See the Future (and Multiple Spider-People) in the First Madame Web Trailer

The latest entry into the Sony Cinematic Universe of Marvel characters (or SCUM for short), Madame Web joins such almost-luminaries as Morbius and Venom as they tag along behind the already flagging MCU with her first trailer. From director S.J. Clarkson (a longtime TV director who helmed a couple episodes of  Jessica Jones), Madame Web gives us the one-two punch of Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney as spider-adjacent superheroes…and then keeps tossing in more.

Johnson plays Cassandra Webb, a woman destined to for arachnid life from birth, who can suddenly start seeing the future. Pursued by a bad, black-suited Spider-Man lookin’ dude (who, I imagine has a legally distinct name from Spider-Man), Webb runs into Sweeney’s Julia Carpenter, Celeste O’Connor’s Mattie Franklin, and Isabela Merced’s Anya Corazon. They’re all spider-connected in one way or another, confusingly fighting back against that bad guy who, we cannot stress enough, must not be called Spider-Man.

Perhaps the line most indicative of how this movie looks is Webb’s expository dump: “He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders…right before she died.” That’s a lot to take in, but with a plot that involves shifting timelines and possible futures (all zoomed through with plenty of web-linked effects), you might need a lot of ridiculous lines like that.

Take a look at the trailer below: