Severance’s Adam Scott Joins Sony’s Mysterious Spider-Movie Madame Web

We already had many questions about Sony’s mysterious Madame Web, and the most recent casting announcement makes us even extra curious as to what this film is. Deadline stories that Severance star Adam Scott has joined the ensemble alongside star Dakota Johnson as Madame Web and the “we have no idea what character they’re playing” Emma Roberts, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, and Tahar Rahim.

S.J. Clarkson will helm the Spider-Man-adjacent movie from a screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless. The movie is ready to middle on Marvel Comics’ Madame Web, an aged girl who “suffered from a lifetime of blindness and many years of neurological deterioration due to myasthenia gravis, [which] she compensated [for] with her profound psychic abilities, establishing herself as a medium,” within the comics no less than, in keeping with Marvel’s official bio.

Scott joins the movie in… you guessed it, an unknown function. Look, we don’t know why all these folks have signed however the solid is so wild we’re intrigued to know extra.

 Madame Web is slated to hit theaters on July 7, 2023.

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