The webbed women of Marvel are getting their own animated movie.
Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures is working on an animated Spider-Women film that will "focus on three generations of women with Spidey powers."
According to the article, Bek Smith (Zoo) will write the script, with Amy Pascal producing.
It's not known if Spider-Women will be connected to the previous animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which featured Hailee Steinfeld as Spider-Gwen/Gwen Stacy. The studio is already working on a sequel that continues with the Miles Morales Spider-Man.
Presumably, Spider-Women will be based somewhat on the recent Marvel Comics event storyline "Spider-Women", that was centered around the superheroes Spider-Gwen, the Jessica Drew Spider-Woman, and Silk.
The Jessica Drew Spider-Woman was created in 1977 by Archie Goodwin and Marie Severin, first appearing in Marvel Spotlight #32. At a young age, Jessica's family moved to a lab built by her father and Herbert Wyndham near Mount Wundagore in Transia, where she became gravely ill from months of uranium exposure. To save her life, her father injected her with an experimental serum based on irradiated spiders' blood. She was later captured by a HYDRA reserve unit under Count Otto Vermis, who erased her memories, brainwashed her, and recruited her as a HYDRA agent under the codename Arachne. After an encounter with The Thing, she recovered from her brainwashing, and took on the identity of Spider-Woman. The two superheroes soon encountered Modred the Mystic, who removed HYDRA's memory implants and restored Jessica's memories.
Spider-Gwen, a.k.a. the Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman, was created in 2014 by Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez and first appeared in Edge of Spider-Verse #4 as the Earth-65 version of Gwen Stacy. Instead of this Earth's Peter Parker, this Gwen Stacy was the one bitten by the radioactive spider during a demonstration on the use of radioactive rays at a science exhibit. She became a superhero going by the name of Spider-Woman. Shortly after she began fighting crime, Peter Parker attempted to exact revenge on those who bullied him in Midtown High School, becoming Earth-65's version of the Lizard. Gwen subdued him, but Peter died towards the end of the battle due to a chemical that he used.
Silk was created in 2014 by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos, first appearing in The Amazing Spider-Man (vol.3) #4, following a brief cameo in issue #1. After the radioactive spider that gave Peter Parker his Spider-Man powers, the spider bit Cindy Moon as well. Soon after, Cindy’s abilities manifested, including organic webbing (unlike Peter), but she was unable to control them. Some time later, the character known as Ezekiel approached the Moon family and offered his help with Cindy controlling her newfound abilities. After six years of training to use her powers, Cindy was locked up inside a facility by Ezekiel to protect her and the other "spiders" from the villain called Morlun and his family known as the Inheritors. After learning of her existence, Spider-Man immediately searched for Cindy to break her out of the facility where Ezekiel had kept her. Cindy made her way out of the facility to finally see the city of New York, and became the superhero known as Silk.