‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ actor Celeste O’Connor joins ‘Madame Web’

Los Angeles, May 25 : Ghostbusters: Afterlife actress Celeste OConnor has been cast in Madame Web, an upcoming installment in Sonys Universe of Marvel Characters.

OConnors role has not been announced.

They will appear in the comic-book adventure alongside Dakota Johnson, who is playing the title character, as well as Sydney Sweeney of aEuphoria fame, reports Variety.The movie will serve as an origin story for Madame Web, a clairvoyant whose psychic abilities allow her to see within the spider world itself.

In the Marvel comics, Madame Web is a paralysed, elderly woman with myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune disorder requiring her to connect to a life support system resembling a spider web.Her supernatural abilities prove to be greatly beneficial to Spider-Man and his fellow arachnid allies, like Spider-Woman.Given her condition, though, shes never battled villains herself.S.J.Clarkson, a Marvel alum through aJessica Jones and aThe Defenders, is directing Madame Web.Madame Web is Sonys first modern comic book adaptation to feature a woman in the headlining role.

It is one of several Spider-Man related spinoffs in Sonys pipeline, including "Kraven the Hunter," featuring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ariana DeBose.dc/svn/ #Ghostbusters #Afterlife #Celeste #OConnor #joins #Madame #Kota #Kota #Los Angeles .