Madame Web star Dakota Johnson reveals there were significant changes to the screenplay after she was cast as Cassandra Webb.
“There were drastic changes,” Johnson said in an interview with The Wrap. “And I can’t even tell you what they were.”
While Johnson does not recall how the original Madame Web script changed from its original premise, reports have suggested there were drastic changes during the movie’s reshoots. The story’s previous setting was to be in the ’90s in the same universe as Sony‘s The Amazing Spider-Man starring Andrew Garfield. The references were removed, however, when the production team decided that the timeline did not make sense.
What was Dakota Johnson’s biggest challenge on Madame Web?
Johnson added that her biggest challenge during Madame Web’s production was filming the clairvoyant’s visions from multiple perspectives. “It added so many different camera set-ups, like triple the amount of work,” Johnson said. “And it was very complex, and there’s only like minor differences between each version of the same scene, so it was like puzzle pieces, and really paying attention to what moment we’re in, and what angle we’re in, and continuity and things like that.”
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 is now playing in theaters.
