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Sony and Marvel’s third Spider-Verse animated feature, “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,” is currently on track to arrive in cinemas next June.
The film will hit four years after “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” debuted in mid-2023 in cinemas, leaving things on a major cliffhanger that was originally supposed to be resolved in early 2024.
However, ‘Across’ was prioritised as a resource in order to get it out in cinemas ahead of the writer and actor’s strikes in 2023. At the same time, it became very clear that the third film wasn’t even remotely going to meet that release date, and so it was pushed back.
Since then, co-writers and producers Christopher Miller and Phil Lord have been busy developing the third Spider-Verse while also writing and directing “Project Hail Mary”. Speaking with io9 about what happened with the film’s delays, the pair say:
Miller: “At one point it was one movie, but there was too much movie there, so it was separated into two. But then once you looked at that second half of a movie, you’re like, ‘Well, that’s like not just a story arc that has a beginning, middle, and end.
Lord: “We know where it’s headed, but we need to understand better what’s happening in the middle, and we came upon a really wonderful notion, which is when your family is broken apart by your calling, your talents, how do you put them back together? How do you have it all?”
Part of the issue is that the previous two films have set such a high standard that the pair are taking their time with it to make sure it lives up to the hype and the wait:
Miller: “We put the most pressure on ourselves. There’s no one that puts more pressure on us than ourselves, wanting to outdo ourselves each time and see things that you haven’t seen before and make it feel like something you’ve never experienced before. And so, trying to get something that is as worthy as the previous two has been the driver.”
Lord: “The main trick is to play free. And to have the whole team understand that their job is to try stuff. To make mistakes, to see where this could go. And I can report that they’re going hard. It’s so great.”
Miller: “Having to take it apart to put it back together again was really, really [the] real thing that made it take longer.”
The franchise has been a critical crown jewel not just for Marvel but for the studio overall. Both titles have drawn some of the best reviews ever for comic book movies, the first one also winning an Oscar and the second one proving a major $691 million global hit. Its high-energy animation style has been highly influential on other movies and TV series.
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