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Sydney Sweeney of Euphoria to Co-Star in Madame Web Movie

Madame Web Sydney Sweeney of Euphoria cast Sony Spider-Man Universe
Sydney Sweeney HBO Euphoria Season 2 - Episode 3 Photograph by Eddy Chen/HBO

It appears that the tangled web (get it?) that is Sony’s Spider-Man Universe has snared a new actor. Sydney Sweeney, who is really hot right now after HBO Max’s Euphoria took off, has been cast in the Madame Web movie as a co-star alongside Dakota Johnson. It isn’t clear who the actress will be playing, but what the film will be about in general isn’t all that clear either.

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Madame Web is, in the comics, an old woman who sits in a chair and uses her psychic powers to fight crime while she’s strapped to a life support system thanks to suffering from myasthenia gravis. That doesn’t really make for a great movie on the whole, especially when the character doesn’t directly confront any villains. Deadline is reporting that this means the film could go in a very different direction, especially considering the casting of the very-much-not-old Johnson in the co-lead role. Maybe Sydney Sweeney will be cast in some role that has Madame Web directing her actions?

One interesting tidbit is that Sony reportedly sees Madame Web as its universe’s Doctor Strange thanks to her psychic power set, so it’s possible that she is the universe-crossing bridge character that pulls in the Marvel Cinematic Universe characters, like Vulture showing up in Morbius. Sony is riding high on its Marvel success right now with Venom: Let There Be Carnage and especially Spider-Man: No Way Home delivering huge box offices, but the real test is coming soon when Morbius releases and the studio tries to evolve its own pocket universe beyond the camp of Venom. Kraven the Hunter will follow afterward.

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Matthew Razak
Matthew Razak is a News Writer and film aficionado at Escapist. He has been writing for Escapist for nearly five years and has nearly 20 years of experience reviewing and talking about movies, TV shows, and video games for both print and online outlets. He has a degree in Film from Vassar College and a degree in gaming from growing up in the '80s and '90s. He runs the website Flixist.com and has written for The Washington Post, Destructoid, MTV, and more. He will gladly talk your ear off about horror, Marvel, Stallone, James Bond movies, Doctor Who, Zelda, and Star Trek.
Matthew Razak
Matthew Razak is a News Writer and film aficionado at Escapist. He has been writing for Escapist for nearly five years and has nearly 20 years of experience reviewing and talking about movies, TV shows, and video games for both print and online outlets. He has a degree in Film from Vassar College and a degree in gaming from growing up in the '80s and '90s. He runs the website Flixist.com and has written for The Washington Post, Destructoid, MTV, and more. He will gladly talk your ear off about horror, Marvel, Stallone, James Bond movies, Doctor Who, Zelda, and Star Trek.

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