After dating The Sinister Six for 2016 and pushing back The Amazing Spider-Man 3 by two years, Sony is turning its sights on creating a female superhero movie to add to its Spider-Man Universe. Lisa Joy has been hired to work on the script for the female-centered story. While we don’t know exactly what crime-fighter Sony plans to center on, a few that come to mind are Black Cat, Silver Sable and Spider-Woman. The news of Sony’s interest in a female superhero film comes on the heels of the success of Scarlett Johansson’s turn as an action star in Lucy two weeks ago. The film proved that there is an appetite for female-driven action movies. It topped the box office with $43.9 million in its debut, taking out other action pic Hercules. Marvel also recently announced that it would be launching a comic book starring a female Thor.
