Draft:Silk (upcoming film)

Silk is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is intended to be a film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU).

After announcing plans for a new shared universe of films, Sony was revealed to be developing one based on Silk in June 2018.

Cast

 * Cindy Moon / Silk: a classmate of Peter Parker's who is also bitten by a radioactive spider.

Development
In May 2017, Sony announced plans for a new shared universe, Sony's Spider-Man Universe, to feature Spider-Man-related properties beginning with Venom in October 2018. By the end of June 2018, Sony and producer Amy Pascal had begun development on a film featuring the character Cindy Moon / Silk, and were actively looking for a writer for the project. Moon was previously portrayed by Tiffany Espensen in Sony's Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), which Pascal described as being set in "the same world" as the new shared universe. Discussion of the project focused on Moon's Korean-American ethnicity, with Sony wanting to promote diversity among the lead characters of its universe. In December, Pascal announced that Cindy Moon / Silk would also be appearing in an animated Spider-Women film, but said the two versions of the character would be distinct. Silk comic creator Dan Slott felt they would still work together, with the animated film serving as a "world-wide publicity campaign" for the live-action film by introducing the character to female audience members. Pascal concurred with this, adding that they would "make each other better and bigger". In late 2019, Silk was identified as a potential television series instead of a film, and development of the series version began at Sony Pictures Television.