Insecure star Issa Rae has joined Sony and Marvel's Into the Spider-Verse sequel as iconic comics character Jessica Drew, aka the original Spider-Woman.
The Spider-Verse is getting a little more…spider-er?…today, as
THR reports that Issa Rae has signed on to co-star in the sequel to 2018 s Oscar-winning
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Specifically, Rae still fresh off the fourth season of her HBO series
Insecure, and gearing up to produce its fifth will voice Jessica “Spider-Woman” Drew in the sequel, written and co-produced by the original’s Christopher Miller and Phil Lord.
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Of course, given the general conceit of the
Spider-Verse films which team Shameik Moore’s Miles Morales up with Spider-folk pulled from across a brightly colored multiverse of Marvel history there’s no guarantee that Rae will be playing the
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was so big, it needed three directors to bring it all together. Now we know the sequel will be the same, albeit this time with three new directors.
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Variety reports, and Sony Pictures Animation confirms in the below Tweet, that the still-untitled
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel will be directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson. They’ll take over for Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman, who made the first film. Ramsey remains on as an executive producer, along with Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and a slew of others. Lord and Miller wrote the script, along with David Callaham, who co-wrote