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The film may still be weeks away from release, but Sony isn’t standing still and will expand their Spider-Man animated universe by last night announcing a sequel to Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and a spinoff focusing on the female webslingers.
This is exciting news as Spider-Verse is getting major social media buzz ahead of its 12th December UK release, two days before the US. What else is exciting is Sony Picture Animation have found two brilliant excellent directors to handle the projects.
Man, I thought #SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse would be good but had no idea HOW good! Homecoming is my #1 live action Spider-Man film but man, this is easily the most accurate and authentic Spidey film to date. It was heartfelt, humorous and moved at a fantastic pace. Check it out!— Kristian Harloff (@KristianHarloff) 28 November 2018
#SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse is visually stunning, full of laughs, heart, big cameos, and it's my favorite animated movie of the year so far. It may even become your favorite Spider-Man movie. No joke. I can't wait to see this movie again. Stay until the VERY end.❤️— Kirsten (@KirstenAcuna) 28 November 2018
Amazing #Spiderverse 🕷🕸 I am floored. This was way better than I anticipated. I laughed, I cried, I screamed with excitement! Easily the best #spiderman take on the silver screen! Can I watch it again? Like... right now 👀 pic.twitter.com/m0VihQ7PXX— Jacki Jing (@JackiJing) 28 November 2018
#IntoTheSpiderverse is an evolution in animation (it’s even more impressive than your prepared for). It’s humor is Mile a minute and EXACTLY #Spiderman (and perfect for all ages) and the action is frenetic, insane, and only possible in this format. It is absolutely spectacular.— Coy Jandreau (@CoyJandreau) 28 November 2018
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed Joaquim Dos Santos will be helming the sequel and this awesome because he worked on the incredible Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is one of the greatest TV series ever made.
Santos was most recently worked on the mega-popular Netflix series, Voltron. Meanwhile, David Callaham, who recently worked on Wonder Woman 1984 and currently on Zombieland 2, is penning the script.
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Elsewhere, Lauren Montgomery (who also worked on Voltron) and is best known for directing DC Animated films, Wonder Woman, Batman: Year One (as a co-director), Superman/Batman: Apocalypse and Justice League: Doom, is in negotiations to be at the helm of an untitled all-female Spider-centric project in which the female heroes in the Spider-Verse come together for one adventure.
Additionally, Deadline describes the project will “focus on three generations of women with Spidey powers.”
Out of the two descriptions, the latter sounds the likely way Sony goes as it’s hard to picture who the three generations storyline would work.
This seemingly points towards Hailee Steinfeld returning as Spider-Gwen and then this spinoff has to point towards seeing Jessica Drew Spider-Woman on the big screen for the first time. The final female wall-crawling would have to be Silk, yet a feature film on Cindy Moon is already in the works at Sony so it’s unclear what will happen.
On the other hand, Sony could bring a new look to Mary Jane Watson and make her a member of the team as she has had stories where she was Spider-Woman.
Bek Smith will be writing the untitled Spider-Women script.
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the megaminds behind Spider-Verse, are expected to be creatively involved, but nothing has been confirmed and Amy Pascal, the producer on all thing Spider-centre projects, will continue to produce these projects.
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