Who is villain Ezekiel Sims in Madame Web? Marvel introduces evil Spiderman-lookalike in first trailer

Marvel’s highly anticipated live-action film Madame Web released its trailer yesterday, which features a star-studded cast including Fifty Shades Of Grey’s Dakota Johnson and Euphoria’s blonde bombshell Sydney Sweeney.

Dakota Johnson, 34, stars as the titular superhero, who starts out as a normal New York City girl, a paramedic named Cassandra Webb, and later encounters the villain Ezekiel Sims.

However, after Cassandra has a near-death experience, she finds herself inexplicably gifted with the ability to see the future.

As she begins to embrace her developing superpowers, she connects with three other women with whom she has been linked by mysterious coincidence.

The trailer opens with Cassandra walking into a restaurant and soon after is confronted by supervillain Zeke, played by French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim, 41.

Fans may remember that Tahar played ‘the bikini killer’ Charles Sobraj who preyed on Western tourists traveling the hippie trail of South Asia in the 1970s, from BBC’s drama The Serpent two years ago.

His character Zeke, who has the same basic powers as Spider-Man, wears a darker uniform than his counterpart, and begins terrorizing the restaurant in the dining room. trailer uploaded to YouTube by Sony Pictures Entertainment.

He and Cassandra are immediately engaged in a brutal fight – and things quickly take a turn for the worse when he takes a table knife and drives it into her stomach.

Flash to Cassandra outside the restaurant, as the audience realizes that the entire fight scene has only been her glimpse into the future when she dares to walk into the restaurant.

Cassandra decides against a course of action that ends in a stabbing and whispers, “Let’s try that again,” before choosing a different route.

The trailer then flashes back to Cassie’s origin story as an EMT trying to save a man from a car accident on a bridge.

During her attempts, she becomes gruesomely trapped in the car herself as it slides through the cracked railing and plunges into the water below.

Once, before witnessing a horrific clash in the city, she had a vision of the entire scene unfolding and thus already knew that her patient was “going to die.”

Old School Villain : Ezekiel Sims first appeared in the Marvel comic The Amazing Spider-Man in June 2001, making his character 22 years old

Cassie has a flash of vision of Zeke entering the carriage and strangling all the defenseless women one by one.

Thinking quickly, Cassie tries to prevent the vision from becoming a reality. She convinces the women to get off the subway before Zeke arrives.

Once they are all safe, Cassie takes Mattie, Anya, and Julia into the woods to explain the bizarre circumstances that led to their meeting.

“I can see the future,” Cassie says matter-of-factly, prompting Mattie to surprise her by throwing something at her before she vamps: “She didn’t see that coming.”

It turns out that the four women from the restaurant and Zeke – the supernatural figures in the story – are connected by a strange spider web of personal history.

Cassie discovers that Zeke, aka Ezekiel Sims, “was in the Amazon with my mother while she was researching spiders right before she died.”

They barely have time to marvel at the coincidences before they find themselves locked in a battle for survival against Zeke’s machinations.

It turns out that Cassie’s superpowers aren’t limited to clairvoyance; using only one hand, she manages to prevent a huge piece of falling debris from crushing Julia, played by Sydney Sweeney.

The source material: It remains unclear how close the film will stick to the source material. Madame Web is largely depicted in the comics as an elderly woman connected to a life support system in the form of a spider web

She’ll need all the superhuman abilities she can get, as her mortal enemy Zeke also seems to be able to see forward in time.

So Cassie races through a dizzying series of action scenes, to the point where Mattie accuses her of “showing off” and she dryly replies, “Maybe a little.”

The new film, due out on February 16, 2024, is made for Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, not to be confused with the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man franchise.