Issa Rae has joined the cast of the sequel to 2018’s Oscar-winning animated feature “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” as Jessica Drew, better known as Spider-Woman
Actor, writer, producer, director and executiveThe “Insecure” star and industry multi-hyphenate has joined the cast of the sequel to 2018’s Oscar-winning animated feature “Rae joins returning voice actors Shameik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld . In April,exclusively that Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson will be directing the feature, with producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller also credited as writers on the screenplay, along with David Callaham.
Amy Pascal, Avi Arad and Christina Steinberg are also producing, and original “Spider-Verse” director Peter Ramsey is returning as an executive producer, with Lord Miller’s Aditya Sood. While plot details are a tightly guarded secret, casting Rae as Jessica Drew does open up the possibility of exploring a region of the Marvel comics landscape that’s been virtually ignored in the Marvel feature and TV series adaptations of the last 20 years: Wundagore Mountain.
In the comics, that vaguely Eastern European location — in the fictional country of Transia — is where Jessica grew up as a child, while her parents used the rich veins of uranium found in Wundagore for their various scientific experiments. The radiation, however, poisons poor Jessica, which leads her parents to radically intervene to save her life by, among other things, injecting her with a serum made from, yup, arachnid blood.
Rae, meanwhile, has not been shy about her love of all things Spidey. “Since the third grade, I’ve loved Spider-Man, comic books, memorabilia, everything,” she
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