Emma Roberts Teases Details About Her SPIDER-MAN Spinoff Movie Character MADAME WEB

Sony’s Marvel film Madame Web is in the works, and Emma Roberts is set to play Mary Parker in the movie, who we know to be Peter Parker’s mother. In the comics, Mary is a CIA agent like her husband, Richard. Her limited story ends in the comics when she and her husband were assigned to infiltrate the Algerian-based spy ring controlled by Communist agent the Red Skull, but the Red Skull discovered they were double agents and had them killed by his agent the Finisher in an airplane crash overseas and framed for treason. We have only ever seen her on the screen when her story was briefly visited in The Amazing Spider-Man, so hopefully this movie will dig into her character a little more.

Roberts can’t say much of anything about the film, or the part she’s playing, but she recently told the Shut Up Evan podcast:

"What I can tell you is I'm not a superhero. Some people may think she's a superhero but not ... Like I don't have supernatural powers. So I can tell you that."

That tracks. She doesn’t have a radioactive spider serum, but she does have CIA skills. It must be difficult to have to tiptoe around these interviews!

When previously talking about landing the role, Roberts recalled to Collider:

"I thought it was very unexpected. It's so funny, one day you're just walking around your house, and then you get a phone call that they want to meet you for a Marvel movie. It was so weird because I remember being like, 'What's the audition process? What do I have to do?' And then I talked to the director, and I was in Boston a couple [of] weeks later filming, and we had a lot of fun on it. It's obviously such an amazing cast, and it's such a unique take on a Marvel movie. So I'm really excited for people to see it because I think it's going to be very unexpected, how they tell the story."  

The film’s got a stellar cast, including Dakota Johnson as Julia Carpenter/Madame Web and Adam Scott as Ben Parker, as well as Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Emma Roberts, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, and Zosia Mamet.

Madame Web is currently in post-production, and is expected to hit theaters on February 16, 2024.