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
Great choice!
Racists are triggered about this. Some are showing their asses in these comments.
What's the damn hype over a voice actor? What's the big deal ?
bestofjessdrew Only if she could do the British accent as her.....I honestly like her as her voice actress and hopefully someone like Daisy Ridley get the live action role
I hope she's been practicing her White lady voices
I think the entirety of Hollywood should just quit making movies.
msmchugh96 cos it's spiderwoman related
SnakeSkinShirt
So guess Marvel isn't getting her then?
I just LOVE Isa Rae....I want to see more of her in big budget Blockbuster Movies
Really? But Hank Azaria voicing Carl and Apu in the Simpsons was wrong because he is white?
Meh
Yes!!!
POTUS VP the 2 of you campaigned stating you supported women’s rights! Why are you resisting “ordering” the Archivist to publish the ratified ERA amendment? The “Barr” memo is stopping publication. Biden can tell Garland to rescind the Barr memo. Equal Justice POTUS VP
Wtf another white role given to a black and yet they still cry
😞. Should’ve been Daisy Ridley
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