Following the recent casting of Celeste O’Connor, Sony Pictures has enlisted another young actress for its next Marvel film Madame Web. Deadline brings word that Sweet Girl star Isabela Merced has officially been tapped to star opposite Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney in the forthcoming superhero film. Further details about her potential character are still being kept under wraps.
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In addition to this project, Merced will next be seen in the comedy remake of The Father of the Bride and 20th Century’s reimagined Romeo and Juliet adaptation, Rosaline. Her notable credits are Transformers: The Last Knight, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, and Let It Snow.
Sony’s Madame Web will be led by Dakota Johnson as the titular Spider-Man character. Created by writer Denny O’Neil and artist John Romita Jr. in 1980, Madame Web is a blind psychic that has become a major player in the world of Spider-Man due to her ties to “The Great Web,” a multiversal construct that ties all “Spider” characters together across the multiverse.
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Madame Web will be directed by S.J. Clarkson (Jessica Jones) from a screenplay written by Morbius scribes Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.
