A female-led Spider-Man spin off is in sight, and we’re more than ready

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse hasn’t even made it to the theaters yet, and there are already rumors that Sony is developing a women-centric Spider-Verse spinoff.

There’s a little over two weeks until Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse premieres in theaters, and we can’t wait to finally see Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, Peni Parker, Spider-Ham, Spider-Man Noir, and Peter Parker in the same film. We’ve already preordered our tickets and reserved our seats at the local cinema, and we’ve been binge-reading our favorite arachnid-related comic books and novels, like Miles Morales: Spider-Man, to keep our anticipation at bay. Spider-Verse prescreening events have commenced, and we already have more reasons to be excited about the future of the on-screen spiderlings.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lauren Montgomery is allegedly in talks to spearhead a women-led Spider-Verse spinoff movie with Sony. The rumors of the spinoff are still fresh, but it appears that Venom and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse were just the beginning of Sony’s film franchise.

IGN adds that Spider-Verse producers, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord and Chris Miller will reportedly be immersed in the spinoff. It might be our justified pre-Spider-Verse opening night hype kicking in, but our stanning senses tell us that a spinoff with a team of spider-women is a promising perspective for Sony and fans alike.

Deadline reports that Wonder Woman was the most profitable superhero movie in its debut year, 2017. Therefore, it’s safe to assume that titular women superheroes don’t only attract viewers, they churn out blockbuster-sized revenues. With the reviews for Spider-Verse slinging in with consistently positive overtones, that’s an early indication that the spider-heroes could have a promising future beyond the singular film.

We aren’t the only ones who are hoping for an all-female team in the alleged Spider-Verse spinoff. Fans have already taken to Twitter to simultaneously celebrate the Spider-Verse and the rumored descendant film.

Whereas, other Twitter users have already noticed the various misogynistic comments cloaked in “critiques.”

If you have the patience and frustration to spare, just scroll through replies and mentions of the upcoming spinoff. The sexist commentary is rampant, claiming the spinoff is “too political,” “pandering,” and lined with a misandrist narrative (the horror).

We don’t need to embed those tweets here, as we don’t want to give misogyny and sexism a platform. We’ll just point out that it, obviously, continues to exist and is amplified whenever a headline celebrates real-life women or women characters.

After all, this not-so-subtle sexist pop culture criticism isn’t confined to the news about this spinoff. When IGN reported that the untitled Loki series could feature Lady Loki, since Loki is a canon genderfluid and bisexual character, netizens conveniently had similar qualms. (The main tweet is below but again, we’re not going to reshare what trolls have to say about this. We, for one, are totally down for Lady Loki.)

Thankfully, the buzz surrounding the spidey all-female spinoff can distract us from those comments. The Hollywood Reporter notes that director Joaquim Dos Sontos is also in negotiations for a Spider-Verse sequel.

Although we’re already eager to preorder our tickets for the spinoff that isn’t even close to filming yet, we have to take a step back from all this Spider-Women excitement, so we can fully appreciate Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, Spider-Ham, Peni Parker, Spider-Man Noir, and Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse when it premieres on Dec. 14.