EXCEPTIONAL: Shortly after her historic victory at the SAG Awards on Sunday night, Ariana DeBose set out on her next big project. Oscar nominee West Side Story the star will join Sony Pictures’ Marvel movie The Craven Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor Johnson. Although not confirmed, sources say DeBose will play Calypso in the film.
JC Chandor directed the photo with producer Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach. Art Markham and Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk wrote the screenplay.
One of Sony Pictures’ Marvel characters, Craven is one of Marvel’s most iconic and famous antiheroes, who has clashed with Venom and the Black Panther among many others, and is one of Spider’s most famous and feared enemies. Man. The film will be released in theaters on January 13, 2023.
As for Calypso, she is a voodoo priestess who uses magic potions, and in addition to being an opponent of Spider-Man, she is also an occasional partner and lover of Craven.
Sony is coming out of the hot series, with Spider-Man: No way home becoming the biggest film of 2021 with $ 1.8 billion in worldwide sales since Venom: Let it be a carnage made more than $ 500 million worldwide. As for future films, starring Jared Leto Morbius bows in the United States in April, and the studio has just named Dakota Johnson as the host Madame Webb.
DeBose shares skyrocketed after her theft on stage as Anita in Oscar nominee Steven Spielberg West Side Story adaptation. In addition to receiving the SAG Award for Supporting Actress, DeBose also has BAFTA and Critics Choice nominations in the same category.
She will then appear in Matthew Vaughn’s action film Argyle from Apple, starring Henry Cavill, Brian Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson and Dua Lipa, and will also star in Gabriella Cowperthwaite’s space thriller ISS along with Chris Messina and Pilu Asbek.
DeBose won a Tony nomination for her role as Disco Donna in Summer: The summer musical Donna and appeared with Lynn-Manuel Miranda in the winning Tony musical Hamilton as a member of the original cast in both Broadway and Off Broadway productions, as well as the Emmy-winning film version that was later released on Disney +. She also starred in the film adaptation of Ryan Murphy’s musical The prom for the Netflix and Lorne Michaels music comedy series Schmigadoon! in Apple TV +.
She is represented by CAA, AC Management and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.