Living on the edge, Fighting crime, Spinning webs, Swinging from the highest ledge, He can leap above our heads. Spectacular, Spectacular Spider-Man! A poster previously confirmed the animated wall-crawler who starred in two seasons of TV’s The Spectacular Spider-Man would make his big screen debut in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — and now a new low-quality look shows Josh Keaton’s Spidey in the sequel to 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse. The new movie introduces the Spider Society, an elite team of Spider-People from across the Multiverse led by Miguel O’Hara, a.k.a. Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac).
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See the cameo below.
The Spectacular Spider-Man is just one of too-many-to-count Spider-People in Across the Spider-Verse, along with Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson), the Jessica Drew Spider-Woman (Issa Rae), Spider-Punk Hobie Brown (Daniel Kaluuya), and Spider-Man India Pavitr Prabhakar (Karan Soni).
In Spider-Verse 2, audiences will see those Spider-People co-existing and interacting: according to co-director Kemp Powers, there are even “hundreds of Spider-People on the screen at the same time.”
“Seeing Keith Giffen’s work juxtaposed with Todd McFarlane’s on thescreen… that needs to track immediately [with audiences]. That was ahuge challenge for us to overcome. Some of my favoritecharacters are only on the screen for a few moments,” Powers told TechRadar. “Youlook at some of them and think ‘Oh my god, I want to spend an entiremovie with them’. We fully designed and rendered a shockingly largenumber of characters to be reflective of their comic inspirations andthe eras they appeared in.”
Powers continued: “We executed their designs in a way that wewant you to go ‘That literally looks like [Spider-Man 2099 co-creator]Rick Leondari’s work’ or ‘That’s a Brian Stelfreeze drawing’. We broughta lot of those artists on board as consultants to assist with characterdesigns and give guidance to our animation team so they could replicatethat.”
The official logline: “After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’sfull-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across theMultiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged withprotecting its very existence. However, when the heroes clash on how tohandle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the otherSpiders. He must soon redefine what it means to be a hero so he can savethe people he loves most.”
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse swings into theaters June 2nd.
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