Madame Web: Mike Epps Joins the Cast of Dakota Johnson's Marvel Movie

Actor-comic Mike Epps, known for Dolemite Is My Name and Girls Trip, is the latest addition to the Sony-Marvel superhero movie Madame Web. Headlined by Dakota Johnson, Madame Web is the first female character to be developed within the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel characters. Before Ms Marvel, Did You Know Fawad Khan Had Played Haasan in a Pakistani Show About Partition?

Epps also joins Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Emma Roberts, Celeste O'Connor and Tahar Rahim in the cast, reported Deadline. The details about Epps' role in the film, billed as an origin story, have not been disclosed. Based on the Marvel comics by writer Denny O'Neil and artist John Romita Jr, Madame Web is a clairvoyant whose psychic abilities allow her to see within the spider world. Ms Marvel: Farhan Akhtar Opens Up About Working With Iman Vellani, Says ‘Her Energy Is Infectious!’.

S J Clarkson, known for the Marvel series Jessica Jones and The Defenders, is directing the film. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless wrote the film, with Kerem Sanga penning an earlier draft. The film is scheduled to be released on July 7, 2023.

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