Sony's 'Spider-Man' Spin-Off 'Madame Web' Adds Emma Roberts To The Cast
It looks like actress Emma Roberts will be next to star in a comic book spin-off for Sony, Madame Web.
With Sony attempting to capitalize on one of their biggest properties - namely Spider-Man - there has been no shortage of B-characters getting their own feature films.
From Tom Hardy's Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, to this year's double box office disappointment with Jared Leto's Morbius, and Aaron-Taylor Johnson's Kraven the Hunter which is in the midst of filming, Spider-Man has a seemingly endless array of serviceable characters to choose from.
Roberts is the latest actor to be cast in Madame Web - others including Dakota Johnson (50 Shades of Grey), Isabela Merced (Dora The Explorer), Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria), Celeste O'Connor (Ghostbusters Afterlife), and Tahar Rahim (A Prophet).
The story will revolve around an elderly clairvoyant who is kept on a web-like life support system due to her degenerative disease, myasthenia gravis.
It is not certain what exactly the film will be about at this point, though the screenplay will be penned by Kerem Sanga, who wrote and directed First Girl I Loved; and in the director's chair is S.J. Clarkson, whose past credits include Orange is the New Black and Jessica Jones.
It will be interesting to see what will be the final storyline of the film given the strong female casting choices, as well as the creatives behind the production.
As it is panning out, Madame Web seems to be the first woman-helmed film in the Spider-Man universe...Which begs the question: when do we get a Spider-Gwen movie?
