EXCLUSIVE: After landing an Emmy nomination for his critically hailed roll in Severance, Adam Scott looks to have already found his next project as sources tell Deadline he is set to join the cast of Sony Pictures’ Madame Web starring Dakota Johnson.
Also on board are Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, Emma Roberts and Tahar Rahim for director S.J. Clarkson.
Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless penned the screenplay, with Kerem Sanga writing a previous draft.Sony had no comment on Scott’s casting.In the comics, Madame Web is depicted as an elderly woman with myasthenia gravis and thus was connected to a life-support system that looked like a spider web.
Due to her age and medical condition, Madame Web never actively fought any villains. For that reason, sources have stressed it’s possible the project could turn into something else.
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