After Black Panther role, Nigerian actress Aluko joins cast for Marvel’s Venom

These are certainly the best of times for Nigerian-born actress Sope Aluko as she has put pen to paper to join the cast of Marvel’s Venom, Sony’s Spiderman spinoff starring Tom Hardy.

The good news is coming a month after the mother of two teenage boys who currently splits her time between Miami and Los Angeles was named among the cast of Disney Marvel studio production ‘Black Panther’.

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The actress who spent her younger years traveling and living all over the world, including France, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, and Indonesia now joins Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed in the stand-alone film, which is expected to be unrelated to the Spider-Man cinematic universe.

Details of the film, and Aluko’s role in it are sketchy beyond the teaser trailer released a while back, but Marvel’s Venom is billed to land in theatres, October 5 this year.

Produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Amy Pascal, Marvel’s Venom is expected to launch another profitable franchise for Sony.

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