Marvel Production Update: ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2, ‘Spider-Woman,’ More

Hawkeye Season 1 Hailee Steinfeld and Jeremy Renner

It’s time once again for our weekly check-in on what might be coming down the pike for Marvel Studios and related productions. And this time around things are going hog wild with some possible news on Hawkeye Season 2, Olivia Wilde’s live-action Spider-Woman movie, and more.

As usual, these production “updates” are from Production Weekly. And also as usual, please take them with an enormous grain of salt, as PW is very open about the fact that they don’t vet their sources. Some listings in the weekly are from legitimate production companies. Others are sourced from internet rumors. Basically, they’re casting as wide a net as possible in order to allow folks who work behind the scenes the best chance possible to get a job. So while it’s exciting to see a project pop up in the magazine, it may or may not mean anything real.

To that end, let’s start with Hawkeye Season 2, something that Marvel Studios has, in no way, officially announced as of yet. PW targets it for a Fall, 2025 production start in New York, which is a good way off. As for anyone attached to the possible project, it all seems to be repurposed info from a previous blurb for Season 1 of the Disney+ series. That includes Jonathan Igla as showrunner, Rhys Thomas as writer and director, Bert & Bertie as directors — and notably for throwing a little cold water on this, Victoria Alonso as Producer alongside Kevin Feige, Trinh Tran, and Louis D’Esposito, despite Alonso publicly parting ways with Marvel last year.

Hawkeye Season 2 is also something that’s been bumping around for a few months with the online scoopers. So while it could be real, and could be announced later this week at San Diego Comic-Con… It also could be a whole lot of nothing.

Even wilder than Hawkeye, though, is the surprise inclusion of Spider-Woman. This is the secret project that Olivia Wilde had signed on to write and direct way back in 2020 for Pascal Pictures. And you may or may not be aware that since then, Wilde had a fair share of controversy with the gossip-drawing Don’t Worry Darling. And then Sony’s Spider-Man Universe hit a, shall we say, hiccup with the release of Madame Web.

Spider-Gwen

The curious thing about this one, though, is that, unlike the Hawkeye listing, I’m not 100% sure why this would be included in PW unless there was, perhaps, some real news. This is wild speculation, but Madame Web was a box office and critical failure… And then it proceeded to crush it on Netflix. Could the surprise streaming success of the female-focused Spider-Man spinoff have restarted talks for Wilde’s film? She’s technically still in development on an “Untitled Sony/Marvel Project,” among other things like another comic book adaptation, Avengelyne. Again, this could be nothing. Or, it could be something. Something wonderful.

According to the listing, Spider-Woman is produced by Amy Pascal and Rachel O’Connor, written by Wilde and Katie Silberman, and directed by Olivia Wilde. It’s only listed as getting started sometime in 2025, nothing more specific than that. The synopses PW uses are their least reliable bits of info, but I’ll note they target this Spider-Woman as Gwen Stacy, aka Spider-Gwen, aka Ghost-Spider. For what it’s worth.

Also of note to fans of Hailee Steinfeld, it would be pretty wild if she took her performance as Gwen Stacey in the Spider-Verse movies into live-action for a Spider-Woman movie, as well as reprising her role as Kate Bishop in Hawkeye Season 2. This is my multiverse of madness.

Last, the “more” I was referring to is another listing for Spider-Noir. There’s not much new info there, but it’s still targeting a shoot date of September 2024 in LA, and wrapping up in February 2025, under the working title “Old Fashioned.” It stars Nicolas Cage, Brendan Gleeson, and Lamorne Morris, with Li Jun Li, Tom Burke, and Abraham Popoola also listed as part of the cast.

That’s your Marvel production update for this week! We’ll see you next week when it turns out none of this is accurate. Unless it is.

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