By Ben Pearson/Sept. 3, 2020 2:30 pm EST
In 2018, we learned that a Silk movie was in the works at Sony, which would center on a Korean-American character named Cindy Moon. A relatively new addition to the comics, Cindy is a classmate of Peter Parker’s who also accidentally gets bitten by a radioactive spider. As Silk, her alter-ego, Cindy possesses powers that are similar to Spider-Man’s, although instead of building her own web-shooters, she has the ability to blast webbing organically out of her fingertips. She also has an eidetic memory and a Silk Sense that is far stronger than Parker’s Spider Sense.
Now Variety reports that a Silk TV show is in the works, so we’re assuming the movie has been reworked into this series. Lauren Moon (who, like the lead character, is Korean-American) wrote the TV adaptation; her previous credits include shows like Atypical and Good Trouble. Lord and Miller will executive produce alongside Amy Pascal, who’s been involved with several Spider-related projects at Sony since she was fired as the head of the studio and became a producer. Tiffany Espensen played the Cindy Moon character in Spider-Man: Homecoming, but that was basically a cameo role and it’s unclear if role and she’ll be returning for this live-action series.
