Ghostbusters: Afterlife star Celeste O’Connor has joined the cast of the upcoming Sony/Marvel Universe project Madame Web. Although O’Connor’s role in the film has not been announced, they will star alongside the previously announced Dakota Johnson, who is playing the title character, as well as Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney.
O’Connor was most recently seen in the Joey king-led romantic drama The In Between. Their other credits include Blumhouse’s slasher title Freaky and Netflix’s Irreplaceable You. They will next feature in writer-director Zach Braff’s A Good Person, which stars Morgan Freeman and Florence Pugh.
The film will serve as an origin story for Madame Web, a clairvoyant whose psychic abilities allow her to see within the spider world itself. The character of Madame Web – a.k.a. Cassandra Webb – was created by Denny O’Neil and John Romita Jr. and initially debuted in 1980’s Amazing Spider-Man #210, and depicts a paralyzed, elderly woman with myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disorder requiring her to connect to a life support system resembling a spider web.
Madame Web, which will be Sony’s first Marvel comic book adaptation to feature a woman in the headlining role, is set to be directed by S.J. Clarkson (Jessica Jones, The Defenders) from a screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the duo behind Jared Leto’s recently released film, Morbius. The film will exist in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe alongside Venom, Morbius and the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Per Variety
