Not too much is known about the highly anticipated upcoming Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One), but in a recent interview, Phil Lord and Chris Miller spoke about the distinctive looks the team will look to achieve.
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Speaking about the upcoming film, Miller said that the various dimensions that Miles Morales visits in the upcoming film will all have their own distinct animation styles. Each of them planned to correspond to their respective branch of the multiverse.
““It is, as Phil said, a very ambitious sequel, because we didn’t want to just sort of do the same thing again,” said Miller to Collider. “So the idea that we’d be going to different dimensions really opened up an opportunity artistically to have each world have its own art style and to be able to push the folks at ImageWorks to develop a way to have each dimension feel like it was drawn by a different artist’s hand. Seeing the development of that stuff is breathtaking, and really, it’s the reason we keep doing it because it’s so hard to get it right.”
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) will see Issa Rae’s Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman join Shameik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld in the animated comic book sequel, who are reprising their roles as Miles Morales/Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen, respectively. Plot details are being kept under wraps but will reportedly feature multiple Spider-powered characters “across Marvel Comics’ time and space.”
It was announced in April that Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson will serve as the film’s trio of directors. Lord, Miller, Amy Pascal, Avi Arad, and Christina Steinberg are all returning to produce the Sony Pictures project, with Alonzo Ruvalcaba co-producing. The original Spider-Verse director Peter Ramsey will executive produce, along with Aditya Sood.
The 2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse film follows teen Miles Morales who becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities. The movie won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and grossed $375.5 million at the global box office.
