Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste<\/p>\n
Sony\u2019s visually incredible\u00a0Spider-Verse movies are amazing at creating a sensation of tension\u2014most especially, if you\u2019re like us, that one that set in at about the two-hour mark of second film Across The Spider-Verse<\/a>, when you realized there was no fucking way the movie was going to wrap up all its ever-escalating plot threads before the credits had to roll. The resulting cliffhanger was already slated to last a long\u00a0time\u2014four years!\u2014and is now set to get just a little bit longer, as Sony announced this weekend<\/a> that it\u2019s bumping the film back another three weeks on its release calendar, to June 25, 2027.<\/p>\n This is all, of course, the fault of those damnable children: Studio execs apparently figured they\u2019d do better at the box office if they aimed their brightly colored Spider-adventure for a week when more kids were already out on summer vacation. (Early June didn\u2019t seem to hurt Across, which pretty much doubled the first movie\u2019s box office take when it landed on June 2, 2023, but given how expensive these movies are to make, we guess we can\u2019t fault Sony for wanting to squeeze every Peni out of them.)<\/p>\n The real question, of course, is whether there will be any animators left alive by the time we get\u00a0to 2027:\u00a0Across The Spider-Verse\u00a0reportedly churned through a ton\u00a0of artists on its way to that 2023 release, with one big Vulture\u00a0piece<\/a> quoting people calling conditions on the film \u201cnot sustainable.\u201d (Including reports that directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller kept requesting fully rendered, final-film quality sequences that they\u2019d then ask for edits to, a labor-intensive practice that apparently contributed to burnout as much as it did to the film\u2019s jaw-dropping visuals.)<\/p>\n Across The Spider-Verse\u00a0will once again star Shameik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld as its animated versions of Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, and the small percentage of us who actually expect to still be alive when it eventually arrives in theaters are keeping our fingers crossed it\u2019ll wrap the series up in fitting fashion.<\/p>\n