'
Euphoria' breakout
Sydney Sweeney is set for her
Marvel
debut as she has bagged a role alongside
Dakota Johnson in the upcoming superhero film '
Madame Web
'.
Sweeney shared the Deadline report and confirmed her MCU arrival with a spider emoticon. While the actress has boarded the S J Clarkson directorial, her character remains under wraps.
The project comes from Sony Pictures that is plotting multiple projects in its efforts to expand its
Spider-Man
universe, billed as Sony Universe of Marvel Characters.
Johnson's character, Madame Web is a clairvoyant mutant who can predict the future and is known to have mentored not only
Peter Parker's web-slinger, but also multiple generations of heroes calling themselves
Spider-Woman
.
In the comics, Madame Web is a paralysed, elderly woman with myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disorder requiring her to connect to a life support system resembling a spider web.
S.J. Clarkson, known for her work on the darker Marvel series 'Jessica Jones' and 'The Defenders', has been hired to direct 'Madame Web'.
Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless have penned the script, with Kerem Sanga also credited for a previous draft.
'Madame Web', Sony's first modern comic book adaptation to feature a female in the headlining role, is one of the several Spider-Man related spinoffs in development. The Spider-Man universe has been minting billions with the recent success of 'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' that earned over USD 500 million and followed it up with 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' that emerged the biggest Hollywood film of 2021 collecting USD 1.85 billion worldwide.
On the work front,
Sweeney
is currently shooting for Tony Tost's 'National Anthem'. She is also in the running to be cast in the
Madonna biopic.
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