Comedian and actor Mike Epps (The Hangover, The Upshaws) has become the latest addition to Sony Pictures’ and director S.J. Clarkson’s Marvel Comics adaptation Madame Web.
Details on Epps’ character are being kept under wraps, but he joins a cast that includes Fifty Shades star Dakota Johnson in the title role as the Spider-Man character, along with Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria), Isabela Merced (Dora The Explorer), Celeste O’Connor (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Emma Roberts (American Horror Story) and Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian).
In Marvel’s comic book universe, Madame Web is depicted as an elderly lady with psychic abilities who is connected to a life-support system shaped like a spider’s web due to the autoimmune disorder myasthenia gravis. That will presumably be changed up for the film, which described as an origin story for the character, “a clairvoyant whose psychic abilities allow her to see within the spider world”.
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Sony is said to be envisioning Johnson’s Madame Web as the ‘Doctor Strange’ of its shared Spider-Man Universe, with the character sitting alongside Tom Hardy’s Venom, Jared Leto’s Morbius, Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Kraven the Hunter, and Bad Bunny’s El Muerto.
Madame Web is set for release on July 7th 2023.
