{"id":337410,"date":"2026-03-19T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/337410\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:38:08","slug":"spider-verse-producers-issue-update-on-beyond-the-spider-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/337410\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Verse Producers Issue Update on Beyond the Spider-Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller have provided an update on the hotly anticipated Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse<\/a>, insisting it remains \u201con schedule\u201d for its 2027 release date.<\/p>\n

The much-delayed Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse<\/a> currently has a June 18, 2027 release date. If the animated movie does hit that date, it\u2019ll arrive four years after 2023\u2019s Across the Spider-Verse, and eight years after 2018\u2019s Into the Spider-Verse came out.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Variety<\/a>, Lord and Miller said Beyond the Spider-Verse is on track to hit that release date, calling the movie the \u201cmost emotional\u201d film in the trilogy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s on schedule and it\u2019s going to be beautiful and emotional,\u201d Lord said. \u201cI would say the most emotional of the three,\u201d Miller added.<\/p>\n

Miller went on to talk about the new ways Spot is being animated, which means the things the supervillain is able to do in Beyond the Spider-Verse are \u201cextra amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warning! Spoilers for the Spider-Verse movies follow:<\/p>\n

Dr. Johnathon Ohnn, aka the Spot, is the main antagonist of the Spider-Verse movies. The former Alchemax scientist was transformed into a portal-creating supervillain when Miles Morales destroyed Kingpin\u2019s Super-Collider. Spot is really, really angry at Miles, who he blames for ruining his life. And at the end of Across the Spider-Verse, after becoming incredibly powerful, he sets out to murder Miles’ father, Jefferson Davis.<\/p>\n

Spot steals pretty much every scene he\u2019s in, with his wonderfully animated portal power fuelling increasingly elaborate, mind-bending action scenes. \u201c… there are some new things they\u2019re developing for the look\u2026 of what Spot does specifically that are extra amazing,\u201d Miller said, teasing even more Spot mayhem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re really extraordinary. They\u2019re going to be great,\u201d Lord said, adding: \u201c… artistically\u2026 It\u2019s going to take you to places of abstraction that I think are going to be really special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every Upcoming Spider-Man Movie Spin-Off in Development\"Click<\/p>\n

Last month, Lord and Miller explained why Beyond the Spider-Verse was taking so long<\/a>. They said that a lot of the delay had to do with the pressure they put on themselves to outdo the previous two movies, which enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim, and the sheer amount of work required to come up with something that would do just that. Then there were issues that came with the decision to split the sequel in two, and subsequently having to piece it back together to create not just a coherent trilogy, but coherent individual movies.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt one point it was one movie, but there was too much movie there, so it was separated into two,\u201d Miller told io9<\/a>. \u201cBut then once you looked at that second half of a movie, you\u2019re like, \u2018Well, that\u2019s like not just a story arc that has a beginning, middle, and end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know where it\u2019s headed, but we need to understand better what\u2019s happening in the middle,\u201d Lord added. \u201cAnd 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?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put the most pressure on ourselves,\u201d Miller went on to say. \u201cThere\u2019s no one that puts more pressure on us than ourselves, wanting to outdo ourselves each time and see things that you haven\u2019t seen before and make it feel like something you\u2019ve never experienced before. And so, trying to get something that is as worthy as the previous two has been the driver.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving to take it apart to put it back together again was really, really [the] real thing that made it take longer,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n

As it stands, Beyond the Spider-Verse is a little over a year away. So what can we expect? Daniel Kaluuya, who played Hobart “Hobie” Brown \/ Spider-Punk in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse<\/a>, is set to play the same character in Beyond the Spider-Verse (he\u2019s also set to reprise the role in a Spider-Punk animated spinoff<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Marvin Jones III, who voices supervillain Tombstone in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/a>, is also set to reprise his role for Beyond the Spider-Verse. (He\u2019ll play a live-action version of the character in this year\u2019s MCU movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day, too<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Last year, Sony released the first photos of Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse during its CinemaCon presentation<\/a>. Check them out in the gallery below.<\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse Images\"Spider-Man:<\/p>\n

Footage screened for attendees began with a voiceover from Miles: \u201cYou can\u2019t ask me\u2026 not to save my father.\u201d The footage then pulled back through trippy sky colors and images from the last movie with dialogue excerpts. Miles was seen fighting his evil self and walking into a dark tunnel with others behind him. Then his line from the last movie \u2014 \u201cImma do my own thing\u201d \u2014 was heard before confirmation of what was then a June 4, 2027 release date.<\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller have provided an update on the hotly anticipated Spider-Man: Beyond the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-337410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}