Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is an animated film about characters from several different Spider-Man universes interacting as villain Wilson Fisk has used a super-collider to bring many Spider-Men into the universe, including Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker, and Spider-Ham. The myriad Spider-Men converge into the world where Miles Morales is Spider-Man.

History

Plans for an animated Spider-Man film first went public following the 2014 Sony Pictures Hack. ^[1] The film was first announced in April of 2015 at at CinemaCon by Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman. The release date was initially set for July 20th, 2018, but pushed to December 4th, 2018.^[2] It was later announced the film would be directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman. Shameik Moore will play Miles Morales, with Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Jake Johnson, Liev Schreiber, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, John Mulaney and Lily Tomlin also playing significant roles.

The first trailer for the film was released on June 6th, 2018 (shown below, left), and was praised for its "gorgeous art style" and focus on drama over action.^[3] Its second trailer was released October 2nd (shown below, right).

Polygon^[7] wrote an article discussing references in the second trailer with other Spider-Man films (examples shown below).

Online Presence

The film has generated significant social media buzz. Deadline^[4] reported that the first trailer for the film "totaled 164K social conversations and 26M views across all social platforms." The first teaser for the film gained over 6,700 points in a thread in Reddit's /r/movies.^[6] The trailer for the second film gained over 14,000 points on Reddit in less than six hours.^[5]

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