Dakota Johnson Insists Madame Web Disaster 'Wasn’t My Fault,' Points to Decisions 'Made by People Who Don't Have a Creative Bone in Their Body'

Madame Web has gone down arsenic 1 of the astir disastrous superhero movies of each time, flopping astatine the container bureau amid a flood of antagonistic reviews. Upon merchandise it broke records arsenic the worst opening for a Sony Spider-Man movie ever and was the archetypal Marvel movie since Fox's Fantastic Four reboot to neglect to unfastened astatine fig one.

Even Hideo Kojima, the legendary crippled manager down Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, couldn't muster up much than six words successful his review. IGN managed a fewer more, putting the film's failings down to an "overcrowded" publication loaded with "extraneous characters, basal archetypes, and generic dialogue."

Since then, and pursuing the adjacent worse Kraven the Hunter, Sony was reported to person fixed up connected its Spider-Man beingness to absorption connected adjacent year’s surefire deed Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

So, what went incorrect with Madame Web? There has been overmuch hand-wringing since it came out. Last year, Emma Roberts, who played Mary Parker successful the movie, attributed Madame Web's mediocre container bureau show and captious reception to net civilization and "everything being made into a joke." One enactment of dialog successful the trailer went viral aft radical poked amusive astatine it, and that enactment didn't adjacent marque it into the last chopped of the movie.

Sydney Sweeney, who starred arsenic Julia Cornwall (aka Spider-Woman), admitted she was "along for the ride," but utilized a Saturday Night Live monologue to stress each the different acting roles she is known for and wholly disowned her crook arsenic the Spidey superheroine, saying: "You decidedly did not spot maine successful Madame Web."

Now, Dakota Johnson, who played the rubric role, has expanded her thoughts connected Madame Web, issuing beardown words that get astatine the important occupation the movie suffered during its development.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times arsenic portion of the promo circuit for rom-com Materialists, Johnson said of Madame Web’s failure: “It wasn’t my fault.”

“There’s this happening that happens present wherever a batch of originative decisions are made by committee," she continued. "Or made by radical who don’t person a originative bony successful their body. And it’s truly hard to marque creation that way. Or to marque thing entertaining that way. And I deliberation unluckily with Madame Web, it started retired arsenic thing and turned into thing else. And I was conscionable benignant of on for the thrust astatine that point. But that happens. Bigger-budget movies neglect each the time.”

Dakota Johnson had beardown words connected the nonaccomplishment of Madame Web. Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images.

These latest comments echo those Johnson made soon aft Madame Web came out, erstwhile she told Bustle: “You cannot marque creation based connected numbers and algorithms. My feeling has been for a agelong clip that audiences are highly smart, and executives person started to judge that they’re not. Audiences volition ever beryllium capable to sniff retired bulls**t.”

Ultimately, it sounds similar Johnson is philosophical astir her Madame Web experience. "I don’t person a Band-Aid implicit it," she added. "There’s nary portion of maine that’s like, 'Oh, I’ll ne'er bash that again' to anything. I’ve done adjacent tiny movies that didn’t bash well. Who cares?"

Sony's Spider-Man beingness officially includes six films: Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Morbius, Madame Web, Venom: The Last Dance, and Kraven the Hunter. In April, Venom prima Tom Hardy discussed the failed effort to marque a Venom / Spider-Man crossover happen.

Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images.

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