Sydney Sweeney is set to join Sony’s Marvel Universe of Characters after a successful year that included starring roles in HBO’s The White Lotus and Euphoria. According to Deadline, she will star with Dakota Johnson in Sony Pictures’ Madame Web. The film will be directed by S.J. Clarkson. The script was written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, with an earlier draft written by Kerem Sanga.
Madame Web was represented in the comics as an old woman with myasthenia gravis who was tethered to a life-support system that resembled a spider web. Madame Web never actively fought any villains due to her age and sick condition. As a result, insiders say it’s conceivable the project will morph into something different. She is essentially Sony’s equivalent of Doctor Strange, according to insiders, because of her psychic sensory abilities. Sweeney’s role in the film is yet unknown.
Sony is coming off a successful year, with Venom: Let There Be Carnage grossing more than $500 million globally and Spider-Man: No Way Home grossing $1.85 billion worldwide.
Sweeney not only starred in one of the year’s hottest shows, Euphoria (HBO recently declared it is the network’s second most-watched show behind only Game of Thrones), but she was also one of the season’s great winners, swiftly going to the top of every major studio’s list of young emerging talents. Sweeney had been considering numerous offers in recent weeks, according to sources, but the chance to work with Johnson in what would be the first female-centric picture in the franchise was too enticing to pass up.