Will Spider-Gwen Ever Get Her Own Movie?

July 2017 saw the release and immediate embrace of Spider-Man's MCU reboot, which featured Tom Holland as New York's friendly neighborhood wall-crawler. In 2018, we got to see another dimension to the franchise literally in the animated masterpiece Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

The film introduced multiple Spidey characters, including Brooklyn teen Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, the Spider-Woman of her universe who is known to fans as Spider-Gwen. Quick-witted, confident and able to pull off an impromptu haircut, Stacy's battle skills and warm heart made her an instant fan favorite.

Into the Spider-Verse wasn't Stacy's first appearance on the big screen, but it was the first time we saw the character with powers. She was played by Bryce Dallas Howard in 2007's Spider-Man 3, the last movie in the Tobey McGuire-starring trilogy; she had a bigger role in the Andrew Garfield franchise, in which she was played by Emma Stone.

But these versions of Gwen are based on the canonical Spider-Man, in which spoiler alert she dies tragically. Spider-Gwen, however, first appeared in the comics in 2014 and got her own series in 2015. She lives in an alternate universe where she was bitten by the radioactive spider instead of her best friend Parker, and she later fails to save him giving her a similar guilt-tinged motivation to her mainstream counterpart.

Powers? Check. Sad origin story? Check. Sense of humor and heart? Check. But will Spider-Gwen ever get her own movie?

While there are no firm plans to give Spider-Gwen her own live-action solo film at this moment, it's safe to say that there's never been a better time at the cinema for female superheroes. After years of being left out or relegated to the background, these characters are finally seeing their names in lights.

In 2017, DC's Wonder Woman became the highest-grossing superhero origin story ever. It was surpassed in 2019 by Captain Marvel, the MCU's first film centered on a female superhero. We know there will be a Captain Marvel 2 coming along within the next few years.... Keep watching the video to find out, will Spider-Gwen ever get her own movie?

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