Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse from Sony Pictures Animation swung into CinemaCon on Monday with a first-look scene and a big reaction from the room.
The third in the Oscar-winning trilogy is set for release June 18, 2027, with Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) returning after a cliffhanger last chapter. At end of 2023’s Across the Spider-Verse, Miles discovered that a parallel version of himself had transformed into the villainous Prowler in an iteration of Earth that lacks a Spider-Man and features a lawless New York City.
Now, hunted by Miguel O’Hara’s Spider Society and betrayed by his friends, Miles finds himself in the darkest corners of the Spider-Verse in search of a way home. He is tied up, threatened, confused and angry. Knowing that his family has been not only fractured but endangered by his calling, it’s a race against the clock for Miles to travel across the wildest reaches of time and space to fight for and reunite everything he holds most dear as his uncle and the evil version of himself try to stop him.
‘Spider-Man Beyond the Spider-Verse’
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Hailee Steinfeld returns as the voice of Gwen Stacy. Brian Tyree Henry, who voices Miles’ dad Jeffrey David, called this installment “even more epic than the last … get your hankies ready.”
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The films are stylistically groundbreaking and immensely successful. The 2018 first chapter, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, won the Animated Feature Oscar, and Across the Spider-Verse garnered a nom. Together, both movies have grossed $1.08 billion.
‘Spider-Man Beyond the Spider-Verse’
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is directed by Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson and written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and David Callaham based on the Marvel Comics. Lord and Miller also produced with Amy Pascal, Avi Arad and Jinko Gotoh. Executive producers are Aditya Sood and Christina Steinberg.
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Lord has reassured fans that they need not worry as all favorite characters will return, along with some new emotional aspects for the teenage hero to explore. And they do. Miles has to deal with a sense of betrayal and turn it into something affirmative, he’s said. “And I think that the thing that we try to do with these movies is represent goodness and show how the love that the characters in the movie have for Miles translates into his growth and success.”
‘Spider-Man Beyond the Spider-Verse’
Sony Animation
Lord, Miller, Persichetti and Thompson introduced the clip of some early footage from the beginning of the movie, still rough, formatted for PLF for the first time. “The Sony Animation team is all about pushing boundaries – that is their super power,” said Lord.
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