Adam Scott Joins Sony’s Madame Web

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Adam Scott, the star of Severance and Parks and Recreation, is the latest actor to join Sony and Marvel’s Madame Web film.

Fresh off of an Emmy nomination for his role as Mark Scout in Severance, Deadline has reported that Adam Scott will be in the upcoming Madame Web film in a currently unspecified role. He’ll be joining the film which will be led by Dakota Johnson as the titular Spider-Man character. The rest of the cast includes Sydney Sweeney, who just received double Emmy nominations for Euphoria and The White Lotus, Emma Roberts, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim and Mike Epps.

Following Venom, starring Tom Hardy as the classic Spider-Man villain, Sony began building out its own cinematic universe of Spidey characters. After last year’s sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Jared Leto starred in Morbius earlier this year as the blood-sucking vampire villain Dr. Michael Morbius.

Created by writer Denny O’Neil and artist John Romita Jr. in 1980, Madame Web is a clairvoyant whose psychic abilities allow her to see within the spider world itself. The movie will be an origin story for the character, who served as an ally to Spider-Man in the Marvel comics.

Madame Web will be directed by S.J. Clarkson (Jessica Jones) from a screenplay written by Morbius scribes Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.

As for Scott, he will star in Season 2 of Severance, which was renewed earlier this year and hauled 14 Emmy nominations, including best drama series. He is also returning for a Party Down revival on Starz with other original cast members.