Adam Scott jumped on board Madame Web, the Sony spin-off focused on the Spider Man character, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
SJ Clarkson is set to direct the feature, which has Dakota Johnson starring, and Emma Roberts and Sydney Sweeney have already been cast. Scott recently starred in Dan Erickson’s absurdist sci-fi dramedy severance pay for AppleTV+, along with John Turturro, Patricia Arquette and Christopher Walken.
Madame Web is part of Sony’s growing stable of films based on Marvel characters. Introduced in the 1980 comic The Amazing Spider-Man No. 210Madame Web is a clairvoyant mutant who specializes in predicting the future of Spider-themed superheroes, having mentored not only Peter Parker’s alter ego, but several generations of heroes calling themselves Spider-Woman.
Traditionally depicted as a blind, paralyzed old woman, she is surrounded by a web-like machine necessary to keep her alive, meaning she stays away from direct conflict and prefers to send others on missions.
Madame Web is one of a number of projects in development as the studio builds out its Sony Universe of Marvel characters. Sony, which controls the movie rights to Spider-Man and other related characters, has already released venom (2018), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2020), and the Jared Leto starrer morbius this past April.
Sony also has Kraven the hunter in the works with star Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The studio is riding high after the release of Spider-Man: No Way Homewhich has raised $1.9 billion worldwide, the highest in Sony history.
Deadline was the first to report on Scott .’s entry Mrs Web.