Not content with big Broadway success, scoring an Oscar nomination for her role in last year's Steven Spielberg-directed West Side Story and being all kinds of awesome in general, Ariana DeBose is giving the superhero - or perhaps it should be supervillain – life a try. According to Deadline, she's been cast in Sony's Kraven The Hunter.
With Aaron Taylor-Johnson starring as a big-game hunter who in the pages of Marvel comics is a regular nemesis for Spider-Man, Kraven has JC Chandor in the director's chair.
As for DeBose, she's reportedly on to play Calypso, a voodoo priestess who brew potions to wreak magical havoc and has some mind control powers. How the character will be brought to the screen remains to be seen, though we're fairly certain that the more problematic aspects will be dealt with.
Russell Crowe and The White Lotus' Fred Hechinger are also in the movie, which currently has a 13 January release date on the books for next year.
DeBose will also be seen in Matthew Vaughn's new spy adventure, Argyll and as an astronaut caught in a tense political situation in I.S.S.. In case you missed her recent, Nando's-tastic interview on the Empire Podcast, find that here.