She’s delivered knock-out performances in HBO’s The White Lotus and Euphoria, and now Sydney Sweeney is joining Sony‘s Marvel Universe. Sweeney will star opposite Dakota Johnson in Madame Web, Sony’s upcoming film about the obscure Marvel character.
Madame Web will revolve around Cassandra Webb, a character traditionally depicted as an elderly blind woman suffering from a chronic neuromuscular disease that hinders her moment and respiratory functions. As a byproduct of her condition, Madame Web remains connected to a life support system that looks very much like a spider’s web. Not without powers of her own, Cassandra is clairvoyant and imbued with precognitive abilities that allow her to see other’s paths along the “web of life.” The Madame Web character first appeared in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man #210, which was published by Marvel Comics in November of 1980.
It is unknown who Sweeney will play in Madame Web.
For the moment, it remains unclear if Sony will present Madame Web as an elderly character or if she’ll be re-imagined as a younger mistress of memories whose powers have yet to surface. It’s possible that Johnson will play a version of Julia Carpenter, who was given Cassandra’s powers when she died. As Madame Web, Julia has the following abilities:
Prescience: Ability to perceive aspects of the future.
Telepathy: Ability to read minds and project thoughts.
Astral Projection: Ability to project her consciousness outside her body and travel.
Possible Teleportation: Since becoming the new Madame Web, Julia has seemingly teleported from one location to another. This is not an ability previously demonstrated by either her or the first Madame Web. It is possible Julia is not actually teleporting, but rather projecting a very vivid astral projection to a secondary location. This appeared to be the case in at least one instance where she suddenly appeared.
I think it makes more sense for Johnson to play Carpenter in Madame Web, but I have no inside track on this project. That’s kind of what I like about it, though. That, so far, Sony’s Madame Web movie is a total mystery. I’ll be interested to see which direction they choose to go and to learn who Sweeney will play in the film.
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