Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a 2023 American animated superhero film starring the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales/Spider-Man, produced by Marvel Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Marvel Entertainment and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. film. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), set in the shared set of an alternate universe known as Spider-Verse. The film is directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, from a screenplay by Christopher Miller and David Callaham, both producing. Miles voices Shamik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tre Henry, Lauren Velez, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwarzman, Issa Rae, Karan Soni, Sha Whigham, Greta Lee, Daniel Kaluuya, Mahershala Ali and Oscar Isaac. In the film, Miles goes on an adventure with Gwen Stasi / Spider-Woman, where he meets the Spider-Society team led by Miguel O’Hara / Cell-Man 2099, but is infiltrated. Fight them to solve the new threat in the place.

Sony began developing the Spider-Verse sequel ahead of its 2018 release, with a writing and directing team attached. Moore should have focused on the relationship between Miles and Gweny Steinfeld. The sequel was officially announced in November 2019, and animation work began in June 2020, with a different visual style for each of the six universes the characters visit.

Cell Man: The Movie premiered on May 30, 2023 at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles, California, and was pushed back from its April 2022 theatrical release date, releasing in US theaters on June 2. to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first film from Sony Pictures Animation to hit theaters worldwide since Angry Birds Movie 2 in August 2019. Like its predecessor, this film was highly praised for its animation, visual style, story, action sequences, and voice acting. print and write. It set several box office records and box office successes, surpassing its predecessor with $690.5 million at the worldwide box office and becoming the highest-grossing domestic film of the year in the United States and the highest-grossing film made in the United States. . Sony Pictures Animation and is the sixth highest grossing film of 2023.

The third installment of the trilogy, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, and the female-centric Spider-Woman are both in development.

Plot

On Earth-65, police captain George Stasi doesn’t know that his daughter Gwen Stasi is Spider-Woman. Years ago, Gwen killed her friend Peter Parker while he was having a brainstorming session, and the police have been hunting her ever since. One night, Gwen meets Vulture from an Italian Renaissance-themed alternate universe. Miguel O’Hara and Jess Drew use the clock to create a portal and help Gwen neutralize the Vulture. George corners Gwen, then reveals his identity; panicked and tried to catch him. Miguel is reluctant to give Gwen her Spider-Man membership, so she and Jess run away.

Sixteen months after the destruction of the Alchemax conflict, on Earth-1610 in Brooklyn, [a] Miles Morales meets Spot, an Alchemax scientist whose body has been implanted with portals during the explosion of our collision. Spot blames Miles for causing his condition, and Collier tests to reveal that he is infected with a worm from the Earth-42 dimension that bites Miles and turns him into a spider. Spot then accidentally teleports himself into space, where he travels to other universes, including Alchemax colliders, to further strengthen himself.

Gwen travels to Earth-1610 and reconnects with Miles while secretly following Spot. Miles secretly follows the portal to Earth-50101, and they team up with local Spider-Man Pavitr Prabhakar, then Hobie Brown and Spot, who absorb the power of this world’s collider. Spot and Miles discuss Spot’s future attacks, including the deaths of Police Inspector Singh (father of Pavitr Gayatri’s girlfriend) and Miles’ father, Jeff. As the collision collapses, Miles rescues Singh, but Earth-50101 begins to disintegrate from the broken “canon event” before Spider-Society members arrive to repair the damage. Miles, Gwen, and Hobie are sent to the headquarters of the Earth-928 community, where hundreds of Spiders live in a large colony.

Miles, Gwen and Hobby meet Miguel and meet Peter B. Parker and his baby daughter Mayday. Miguel explains to Miles that every Spider-People story is related to “Canon Events”, including the death of a police captain close to Spider-Man and the character of Spider-Man’s Uncle, among other events. the soul defines the man; and straying from this event threatens reality and can lead to the collapse of this universe, which in turn will bring down the entire multiverse. Miguel reveals that he witnessed the collapse of another universe when he tried to change his death form from it.

Miles realizes that Jeff, who will be promoted to police captain in two days, is the canon case of Spot’s murder. Miguel imprisons Miles to prevent him from rescuing Jeff, but Hobie helps him get rid of Miles without leaving the community. As Miles escapes through the complex, Miguel orders the Society to capture him. Miguel corners Miles and tells him he is the real anomaly; Miles was never meant to be Spider-Man because the spider that bit him came from Earth-42, so there would be no Spider-Man on Earth-42, and if Spider-Man hadn’t bitten Miles, he would have been Peter. Parker from Earth-1610 and survived the collision, Spot it will never happen.

Miles outsmarts Miguel and escapes what he believes is the home dimension. Realizing Gwen’s responsibility, a furious Miguel removes her from the Society and forcibly sends her to Earth-65. Once there, Gwen hears that George has resigned as police captain and realizes that by doing so he has safely averted the canon incident. The two reconcile and George gives Gwen a watch portal Hoby left behind.

To his surprise, Miles found that he was not in his own dimension, but in Earth-42, home of the snake that bit him. In this world, his uncle Aaron Davis is alive when his father Jeff dies, and in the absence of Spider-Man, New York City is rampant in crime. While the community is looking for Miles in their size, Gwen goes to Earth-1610 and speaks with Miles’ parents, promising to find him and bring him home. Earth-42’s Aaron Holds Miles It is revealed that Earth-42’s Miles has become a Prowler.

As Spot begins his multi-dimensional attack, Gwen assembles a team to find Miles, consisting of Peter B., Mayday, Pavitr, Hobby, Margo Cass, Cell-Man Noir, Penny Parker, and Cell-Ham, as Miles prepares to escape. .

Production

In late November 2018, prior to the release of Spider-Man: The Spider-Verse (2018), Sony Pictures Animation began developing a sequel due to the “incredible buzz” surrounding the project.  The sequel should continue the story of Miles Morales / Spider-Man  which has been running from the “seed planted” throughout the first film.  Joaquim Dos Santos and David Callaham are set to direct and write, respectively, with Amy Pascal returning from the first film as a producer. The film’s other first-time producers — Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Avi Arad and Christina Steinberg — are all expected to return in some capacity.  The following month, Pascal revealed that the film would focus on Miles and Gwen Stasi/Spider-Woman, exploring the romance between the cut characters from the first film, and that the sequel would have a previously announced “launch panel”. A female movie directed by Gwen.  Sony officially confirmed the sequel in November 2019, with Lord and Miller returning as producers for a release date of April 8, 2022.  In April 2020, Sony postponed the film’s release to October 7, 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. .

In February 2021, Miller announced that he and Lord were working on a film script with Callaham, and that Peter Ramsay would serve as executive producer after directing the first film.  That April, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson were announced as co-directors, along with Dos Santos, and all three were reported to have worked on the project since its inception. . Rebecca Karch and Brian Michael Bendis join Ramsay as executive producers.

In December, Lord and Miller announced that the film was divided into two parts: Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (Part One) and (Part Two) because they had written the story they wanted to tell for the sequel and realized. that’s too much for one movie. Work on two parts is carried out simultaneously.  The sequel was changed in April 2022 to Spider-Man: Beyond Spider-Man and Spider-Man: Beyond Spider-Man’s Legs. The release date was later changed, pushed back to June 2, 2023 via Spider-Verse.  Lord and Miller said that Sony’s sequel would be similar to Spider-Verse, but would end up having the largest crew of any animated film, employing around 1,000 people. The film is said to have 240 characters and will take place in six universes.

Animation and design

Lord revealed that design work for the new character in the film had already begun in November 2019, with comic book artist Chris Anka serving as the film’s character designer.  On June 9, 2020, the film’s lead animator Nick Condo announced that production had begun.  The various universes seen in the film were designed to look like they were each drawn by different artists.  After the first Spider-Verse film, The Mitchells vs. After learning new animation tools after working on Machines (2021), Lord and Miller worked passionately to develop six different animation styles. The goal is to surprise the audience when the character enters a new environment, so that the film can accurately reflect the plot and the style can create different emotional backgrounds. Earth-65, the home of Gwen Stacey, resembles an “impressionistic” watercolor painting. To create this style, the animation team created a simulator and used a visual palette that represented Gwen’s emotions as “three-dimensional mood rings”.  According to co-director Justin K. Thompson, Cinderella’s dress in 1950 was torn and the environment damaged because her emotions were reflected through the colors. This style is also meant to remind viewers of Spider-Gwen’s comic book covers. One of the two alternate Earths seen in the trailer is Earth-50101, nicknamed “Mumbattan” by the crew after Mumbai and Manhattan, as it is based on Gotham Entertainment’s comic book series Cartoon Man: India. To give Pavitr Prabhakar’s character a unique movement and fighting style, the creative team looked to Kalaripayattu, a 2000-year-old Indian martial art from the state of Kerala. Another universe is Nueva York, the future New York City of Marvel 2099 world, based on Syd Mead’s neo-futuristic illustrations, which is the final version. [citation needed]

When the cast and crew interviewed Empire in March 2023, co-creator Joaquim Dos Santos revealed that the alternate universe would be a “New London,” which would be close to “the final dimension inhabited by Daniel Kaluuya’s Spider-Man.” now”, later known as Earth-42, the world that became Miles and Prowler’s world.  It took two to three years for the Spider-Punk animation style to develop, and in the 1970s. inspired by punk rock album covers , posters, and photocopiers, magazine and newspaper photocopies, and collage images that represent color paper and images, with a general grayscale quality due to the lack of toner in the photocopier.  Also, animators use punk DIY visuals and They experimented with different frame rates to show Spider-Punk anarchist personality and confrontational tendencies. Body in 3s or 2s (8 or 12 frames), guitar in 4s (6 frames), 2s or 1s. (12 or 24 images), Unlike other characters that are mostly animated in 2s. In May 2023, Jake Johnson revealed in an interview that the film will present the Lego universe  The Lego series is 14 It is played by the young Canadian animator Preston Mutanga. , and the filmmakers tracked him down and hired him after being impressed by the recreation Lego from the film’s first teaser.

Miles’ design continued to reflect his growth spurt, while Gwen was given a new haircut and updated outfit. Spider-Man 2099 co-creator Rick Leonardi was brought on to adapt his designs for the film, while comic book artist Brian Stelfries was chosen to design Jess Drew’s visual development. Influenced by the Austrian painter Egon Schiele, Spot’s design  evolves throughout the film, starting with the “unfinished sketch” style with blue construction lines as he gains more confidence and skill. comic book artist’s rough sketch before it goes to the writer of the piece. “Our point portal looks like “animation ink spilled or spilled over the comic artist’s image,” which creates a new challenge for the animation team. The Vulture was given a Renaissance. -era design inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s workbook artwork  Thompson stated that the design of the snake in “Go Home” was influenced by the spider in the film Krull (1983), which was named “Grunt” after the character in the film.

Post-production

In May 2023, Powers announced that the film would end on a cliffhanger, and co-director Dos Santos compared it to the Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back (1980). [87] Powers explains:

It’s a standalone movie about Spider-Verse, but it definitely ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. I think it’s a good contrast. We hope it’s a satisfying build-up to what’s to come in the third movie, because you want people to be excited about what’s to come. It helps us know that this is the second part of a three-part story. Since you already know that the third story is guaranteed, you can make it different. I mean, there are many main characters in this movie, and in this movie we have a back story until the end. [87]

That same month, Powers announced that the film was “not part of” the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). In the film, Miguel makes a direct reference to the event Spider-Man: No Way Home and says that Gwen “didn’t start with the Doctor and had a little nerve on Earth-199999” – the Doctor. and ties the events of Spider-Man MCU – No Way Home to the explosion of conflict leading up to the Spider-Verse. The quote is intended as a line created by Lord and Miller. [88] Additionally, Donald Glover is portrayed as a prisoner of the Spider-Society, displaced from his home reality as an alternate version of the MCU film Cartoon-Man: Homecoming (2017). [89] In a press conference with Lord and Miller, when asked if they were the same Prowler from the MCU, Miller said, “It’s up to you. You know, anything is possible.” God also replied, “We are trying to give a nod to people who fell in love with this character in other characters.” US release date. [91] With a running time of 140 minutes, it is the longest animated film produced by an American studio, surpassing Consumer Spirits (2012). [92]