Sony’s Madame Web star Celeste O’Connor says she wants to see her character Mattie Franklin cross paths with Miles Morales in a future live-action Spider-Man movie.
“I almost want to share a screen with the live-action Miles Morales,” O’Connor said in an interview with ComicBook.com. “Personally, I feel like Maddie Franklin and Miles could be friends. I could say that.”
O’Connor’s Mattie Franklin made her Marvel Comics debut in the pages of The Spectacular Spider-Man #262 (October 1998). As the niece of J. Jonah Jameson, Franklin was the third Marvel character to take on the Spider-Woman persona during a period when Spider-Man went into exile. The character made her big screen debut opposite Miles in the animated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as a member of the Spider-Society.
Though O’Connor and Marvel fans have been demanding a live-action Miles Morales-led movie in the Spider-Man Universe for years, franchise producer Amy Pascal told Variety that they will have to continue to wait a little while longer. “Someday,” Pascal said. “Not until we make two more movies. Someday. Someday. We’re very happy doing [the animated Spider-Verse movies].”
What is Madame Web about?
The official synopsis for Madame Web reads as follows: “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.”
Directed by S.J. Clarkson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, and Claire Parker, Johnson headlines the movie alongside Sydney Sweeney as Julia Cornwall, Celeste O’Connor as Mattie Franklin, Isabela Merced as Anya Corazon, and Tahar Rahim as Ezekiel Sims.
Madame Web arrives in theaters on February 14.
