The new trend as of late was most recently exemplified by Dakota Johnson’s comments on “Madame Web” after the Sony-produced film flopped at the box office. Johnson told Bustle that she understood why the film was “ripped to shreds” by critics, citing that “art does not do well when it’s made by committee.”

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“You’re telling me you signed up for a Marvel movie,

In all fairness to Dakota Johnson, she didn’t sign up to a Marvel movie, it was a Sony Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film and that is a very different beast. She also didn’t sign up to the movie that was eventually made, as there were a lot of changes made to the script after she inked her deal and, while the quote they gave is a little… pretentious and open to ridicule, she has gone into more detail about what went wrong.

However, she must have been aware of the reception to Morbius and her agent should have given her an overview of the SSU bizarrely trying to milk to Spidey IP without Spider-Man which is doomed to failure as Venom is the only character who can carry their own story and still the lack of the old web-slinger harms those films too. Unless someone comes up with a great idea for a story, they need to stop trying to build a franchise without it’s lynchpin. Some of those characters only work as antagonists and some have developed their own independent stories but only as part of the larger Marvel IP (as Morbius has). So she should have known better going into this or seriously lowered her expectations and treated it as just a payday.