Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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Friday, December 14, 2018DIRECTOR
Bob Persichetti
Peter Ramsey
Peter Ramsey
Screenwriter
Chris MillerPhil Lord
Everything we know so far about Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse introduces Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, and the limitless possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask.The animated film will focus on Miles Morales as the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
A big screen animated take on Peter Parker/Spider-Man.
The trailer for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse was released by Sony Entertainment early in June. It features a lot of sequences of Morales discovering his powers alongside funny and gratuitous embarrassment from his cop father. The trailer also shows clips of his interactions with Spider-Man who appears to be a somewhat less impressive role model than Morales was expecting.
Following the November 2014 hacking of Sony's computers, emails between Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman Amy Pascal and president Doug Belgrad were released, stating that Sony was planning to "rejuvenate" the Spider-Man franchise by developing an animated comedy film with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Sony executives were set to discuss the project further in a discussion regarding several Spider-Man spin-off films at a summit in January 2015. At the 2015 CinemaCon in April, Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman announced that the animated Spider-Man film had a July 20, 2018 release date, and would be produced by Lord and Miller, Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Pascal, with Lord and Miller also writing a treatment for the film. Rothman said that it would "co-exist" with the live-action Spider-Man films, though Sony soon stated that the film would "exist independently of the projects in the live-action Spider-Man universe", as it is set in an alternate universe from those films without Tom Holland's version of Spider-Man.
That December, Sony moved the film's release date to December 21, 2018.By June 2016, Lord had written a script for the film, and Bob Persichetti was set to direct. Miller said the film would feel different from previous Spider-Man films, and "will stand on its own as a unique filmgoing experience." It had also been rumored to focus on the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man, which Sony confirmed at a presentation for its upcoming animated films in January 2017. Peter Ramsey was co-directing the film by that point. The next month, Alex Hirsch was revealed to have contributed to the film's story along with Lord and Miller, and Christina Steinberg was said to have replaced Tolmach as a producer on the film. In April 2017, the film's release date was pushed up one week from December 21, 2018, to December 14, 2018. Lord and Miller announced in December that the film was titled Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and revealed that multiple Spider-Men would appear in the film. By then, Rodney Rothman was also co-directing the film.
Along with Venom, Sony's Hall H presentation at Comic-Con will likely include Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. We would love to see the entire cast and crew at the Comic-Con panel. We're also hoping that Sony will confirm Nicholas Cage's casting and tell us a bit more about his role in the film.
Since there is already a trailer out for the movie, we're not looking for much in the way of plot details, but we would love to see more footage from the film; particularly an action sequence since the trailer didn't show much of that.
Even if we don't get any new information at San Diego Comic-Con, the trailer Spider-Man: Into The Spider Verse should hold us over until the film comes out December 14.
