The long-delayed third movie in the Spider-Verse trilogy is finally arriving in June 2027, and Sony released a series of first-look images from the animated film.
“Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,” which is slated for release June 18 of next year, will cap the trilogy that started with “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (2018) and continued with “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (2023).
The images released on the official Spider-Verse Instagram feature a shot of Miles Morales—aka Spider-Man—in a loving embrace with his father, a still of Miles facing off with Spider Society ringleader Spider-Man 2099, an image of Spider-Punk declaring that he’s “gonna save your dad,” and what appears to be a flashback involving young versions of Miles’ dad and Uncle Aaron, aka the Prowler.
“Across the Spider-Verse” ended on a cliffhanger, with Miles captured by a villainous alternate version of himself, and Spider-Gwen/Gwen Stacy (referred to as Spider-Woman in the films, currently known as Ghost Spider in the comics) assembling a team of spider-powered allies to rescue him.
“Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” is directed by Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson from a script by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and David Callaham.
Lord, Miller, Persichetti and Thompson screened an unfinished clip from the start of the third film at CinemaCon. Per Deadline, the footage showed Miles escaping from the predicament he was left in at the close of the previous film.
The Spider-Verse concept originated in 2014 from writer Dan Slott’s tenure on “The Amazing Spider-Man.” The idea—teaming up various versions of Spider-Man and assorted other spider-powered heroes from different universes—took inspiration from the video game “Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions” (which Slott also worked on) and the “Spider Wars” story arc from “Spider-Man: The Animated Series” in the 1990s.
The film adaptations take some of the concepts from the Spider-Verse comic books, and utilize several of the same characters, but the specifics of the stories are wholly original to the films.
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