Sony's SILK: SPIDER SOCIETY Series Reportedly Scraps Writers Room
It seems Sony has had some issues getting its Silk: Spider Society series off the ground. A few months ago it was reported that the series has been put on hold. We’re now learning from The Ankler, that the producer have scrapped the show’s entire writer’s room, minus its showrunner and co-executive producer, The Walking Dead's Angela Kang.
The report says that Kang will continue to act as showrunner for the series, which centers on Korean-American spider-heroine Cindy Moon. The series is also produced by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with Kai Wu and Jim Barnes co-exec producing.
It’s explained that the series is being “refocused with a more male-skewing audience in mind.” I don’t know if this has to do with how Madame Web turned out, but the studio and Prime Video have found success with several of its male-skewing series, including Reacher, Jack Ryan and The Terminal.
All they need to focus on is telling a cool and great story for Cindy Moon! It could be a show for males, females, or both, and if the story is good I’ll watch it! I mean, the man character is a young woman, and she’s a badass character! They just need to properly tell her story!
Apparently, several episodes had been written and the writers were deep into the first season before the strike began. The studio obviously wasn’t happy with how things were going. Kevin Feige did the same thing with Daredevil: Born Again while it was in the middle of production, but Sony made the big shakeup during the writing process.
Silk: Spider Society series will tell the story if follow Cindy Moon, who has previously been described in casting descriptions for the series as a Korean-American between 19 and 29 years old who is a kid from Queens who is on her own for the first time. Although she's a total beginner in law enforcement and fighting crime, she is said to love the feeling of beating up criminals to let her frustrations out, and has an affinity for '80s and '90s pop culture. She also struggles with her identity and heritage, but she tries to focus on her family, friends, and relationships.
Amazon’s Katherine Pope previously said in an interview: "It's a huge focus certainly for all of us here, and for me in particular. I was already a fan of Angela Kang, so I'm really, really excited to be working with her on Silk. She's just brilliant and a total pro. This is also an example of working really closely with Tom Rothman and Sanford Panitch, and the motion picture group, to make sure that we are in lockstep with them and also executing at the same level. They've done such an incredible job with that franchise, so we want to make sure we're executing at that level."
Lord and Miller also previously said in a joint statement: "We are so grateful to everyone at Sony Pictures Television for choosing to partner with us and expand our enduring relationship with the studio. Together we aim to make groundbreaking work of the highest quality and integrity, and to place that work in convenient proximity to your eyeballs and earholes, wherever you may be."
Silk is just such a cool character, it really shouldn’t be that hard to make a great series.