Isabela Merced cast in Madame Web

 

 Isabela Merced has been cast in Madame Web and possible role based on a "leaked" plot summary is Anya Corazon. According to the leaked details, Anya is "an Avatar for the Web of Life" who is being hunted by a dark force across the Spider-Verse and Julia Carpenter (Madame Web) must keep her safe.

In Marvel Comics, Anya Corazon is Araña, a young superhero powered by a mystical spider-tattoo. After her mystic powers were taken from her, she received spider-like powers from a mysterious virus based on Spider-Man's DNA and was given the costume worn by Julia Carpenter during her time as Arachne. Anya became Spider-Girl for a while before returning to her Araña persona (with a new costume).

Anya Corazon was a pivotal player in the story arc where Cassandra Webb made Julia Carpenter the new Madame Web, and her current storyline has Araña traveling the Spider-Verse so her inclusion in the film seems like a very logical choice.

Celeste O'Connor cast in Madame Web

 

 

Celeste O'Connor has been cast in Madame Web. They are rumored to be playing Mattie Franklin, a Spider-hero from another reality who lost her home reality due to an multiversal incursion and wanders the Spider-Verse.

For those unfamiliar with Mattie Franklin, Mattie was the niece of JJ Jameson and a huge fan of Spider-Man. She took part in a magical ceremony that imbued her with super strength and the power to fly. She used her power to impersonate Spider-Man before deciding to become the third Spider-Woman. Her powers were stolen from her by Charlotte Witter and when Mattie got her powers back she also gained Charlotte's psychic spider-legs as well as some of the powers Charlotte had stolen from Spider-Woman Jessica Drew (a psionic version of Jessica's venom blasts) and Julia Carpenter (psi-webs). Mattie became a protege of Cassandra Web until she and her mentor were both hunted down by the Kravinoff family.

With the connections to Madame Web, Charlotte Witter and magic, Mattie would be the logical choice for Celeste to play in a magic-based Spider-film.

Sydney Sweeney cast to play Charlotte Witter in the Madame Web movie?

 

Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney has been cast to play opposite Dakota Johnson in the Sony/Marvel Madame Web movie. With Dakota rumored to playing Julia Carpenter, speculations have begun about Sydney playing Charlotte Witter, the granddaughter of the original Madame Web and the evil Spider-Woman.

For those unfamiliar with this character,  Charlotte Witter was the granddaughter of Cassandra Webb, the original Madame Web. A fashion designer who secretly worked with the sale of illegal goods, Charlotte's criminal activities put her in the tentacles of Doctor Octopus. Realizing her psychic potential, Doctor Octopus experimented on Charlotte and turned her into a human spider-hybrid with the purpose of hunting down anyone with spider-powers. Able to manifest psychic spider-legs from her back, drain spider-powered people of their powers, and hypnotize people, she stole the powers of original Spider-Woman Jessica Drew. the second Spider-Woman Julia Carpenter, and new Spider-Woman Mattie Franklin. It took the combined might of Spider-Man, Madame Web, and the three depowered Spider-Women to stop her.

With her ties to both Cassandra Webb and Julia Carpenter, Charlotte Witter could likely be the villain of the Madame Web movie.

Dakota Johnson cast to play Madame Web/Julia Carpenter

 

Dakota Johnson has been cast to play Julia Carpenter (the second Madame Web) in Sony's new Madame web film. Dakota confirmed her casting on Instagram with a simple web emoji.

For those unfamiliar with the character, Julia Carpenter was a psychic web spinning super hero who took on the identity of Spider-Woman when the original (Jessica Drew) lost her powers. Julia later took the code name of Arachne. When Cassandra Web (the original Madame Web) was fatally injured she used the psychic nature of Julia's powers to transfer her own psychic powers into Julia and made her the new Madame Web.

As Madame Web, Julia has her original powers of psychokinetic energy webs (her psi-webs) and the power to cling to walls with her psionic energy, along with the clairvoyant powers of Cassandra Web and her link to the Web of Reality.

The prevailing rumor is that the Madame Web film will have Julia explore the Web of Reality to introduce the Spider-Verse.