Emma Roberts is making her way into the Marvel Universe. The actress has joined Sony Pictures’ origin story film Madame Web, Deadline reports. She joins an ensemble cast that features Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, and Tahar Rahim. Johnson will play the titular role, but who Roberts will portray in the upcoming film is currently unknown.
Madame Web first appeared in a 1980 The Amazing Spider-Man comic. She is shown as an elderly woman with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease that weakens skeletal muscles, who is connected to a life-support system resembling a spider web. Madame Webb, an ally to Spider-Man, is clairvoyant and a professional medium, but blind and paralyzed. Due to her physical limitations and age, Madame Web never fought villains and because of that, sources have said the project could take a different direction.
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Madame Web is directed by S.J. Clarkson, who previously worked on Marvel series Jessica Jones and The Defenders. Writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, who penned Morbius, will collaborate on the script. Madame Web is Sony’s first modern comic book adaptation headlined by a female character. It joins other Spider-Man spinoffs currently in development including Kraven The Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor Johnson and scheduled for a January release, and El Muerto, with musician Bad Bunny.
Madame Web is scheduled to debut in theaters on July 7, 2023.
Emma Roberts: From Child Actor to Scream Queen
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Roberts is a former child actress who made her film debut in Blow, as the young Kristina Jung. She later appeared on Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous, and in multiple films including Aquamarine, Nancy Drew, Hotel for Dogs, Valentine’s Day, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, and The Art of Getting By.
Roberts later became known for her performances in several horror film and series favorites including Scream 4, FOX’s Scream Queens, and five seasons of American Horror Story, where she played a variety of characters. In 2020, she appeared in Blumhouse’s The Hunt, opposite Betty Gilpin and Hilary Swank. The controversial film follows a group of wealthy progressives who kidnap working-class conservatives to hunt. She most recently starred in The Abandoned, a horror film that includes a young mother’s struggle with postpartum psychosis.
Roberts’ other credits include Adult World, We’re the Millers, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Who We Are Now, Paradise Hills, and Holidate. She is slated to appear in a number of upcoming films including Michael Jacobs’ Maybe I Do (opposite Diane Keaton), as the voice of Sasha Nutwagon in the animated Saurus City, romantic comedy About Fate and George Ratliff’s Returns.
