There’s a lot of buzz right now about multiverses. Between Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Spider-Man: No Way Home, Hollywood can’t seem to get enough of the alternate-timeline concept.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse seems to have kicked off the trend in 2018. The artistic animation style and clever plot made the film an instant classic. It did win the Oscar for Best Animated Film, after all.
Come June 2023, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the first of two planned sequels will hit theaters.
Entertainment Weekly recently caught up with Phil Lord and Chris Miller, producers-turned-screenwriters for the sequel.
Miller began by explaining what Miles Morales, AKA Spider-Man, voiced by Shameik Moore, has been up to since the first film.
“As he’s growing up, he’s trying to figure out how he can go out and see the world and spread his wings and leave the nest… But he also feels rooted to his home and his family. It’s that push-pull of your life as a teenager, where you’re like, How do I get to be my own person, but also not lose where I came from?”
In contrast to the first film, Across the Spider-Verse will see Miles traveling through many alternate dimensions. Each will delight fans with their own art style and personality. Best yet, Lord and Miller suspect over 240 individual characters modeled for the new film.
Like the film’s first go, several high-profile voice actors will return to lend their voices to the film. Hailee Steinfeld returns as Spider-Gwen, Jake Johnson returns as Peter B. Parker, and Brian Tyree Henry returns as Jefferson Davis, Miles’ father, among others.
They will be joined by Issa Rae, who will voice Jessica Drew/ Spider-Woman, and Oscar Isaac, who returns for an extended role as Spider-Man 2099.
As for the film’s villain? That will be funny-man Jason Schwartzman, who voices Spot, a mysterious baddie ability to jump between dimensions.
