Though the progress of its rebooted and ever-expanding Spider-Man universe isn’t moving forward as it might like, with road bumps such as having to move The Amazing Spider-Man 3 from 2016 into 2018, Sony appears ready to head off in interesting directions. Deadline is reporting that the studio is figuring out a film featuring a female lead superhero for 2017. No details have been announced about who might be the focus of such a story, only that Burn Notice veteran Lisa Joy , who is working on the new Westworld HBO series with husband Jonathan Nolan , has been hired to write a script by producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach. Speculation will naturally gear up now as to which of the Spider-Universe’s characters will get her shot at a solo film, with possibilities including Silver Sable, Firestarter and Spider-Woman . Then, of course, there’s Black Cat, AKA Felicia Hardy , who was nodded to in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with Felicity Jones’ character, but wasn’t actually established