The first day of CinemaCon 2022 arrived with a bang, as Sony piled on the news for the studio’s future projects.
This includes movies revolving around the studio’s prized IP featuring the Spider-Man family, and in recent history, no other movie has perfected showing the rich history of Marvel’s iconic characters better than 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
The 2018 animated movie gave Spider-Man fans a perfect storm, as it included many iterations of the famed comic book character, such as Miles Morales, Peter Parker and many more. The movie soon became the darling of the comic book movie community, and it even won an Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards.
WOW! The first 15 minutes of #AcrossTheSpiderVerse is AMAZING! Opens w/ an insane fight against Vulture in Spider-Gwen’s universe. She is joined by Oscar Isaac’s Miguel O’Hara & Issa Rae’s Jessica Drew, who is 5 months pregnant and kicking ass. Looks so good, folks #CinemaCon pic.twitter.com/tVdPn106KB
— Erik Davis (@ErikDavis) April 26, 2022
The sequel in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was set to release later this year. However, it was recently delayed to arrive on June 2, 2023. While many fans were disappointed to hear about the postponement, producers Chris Lord and Phil Miller recently gave some exciting news to fans at CinemaCon 2022 about the scope of the upcoming movie.
At the event, the duo mentioned that the sequel will expand upon the multiverse introduced in the first movie, by blowing up the concept in the sequel, as it will feature around 240 characters. With such a large cast of characters to work on, Sony has pulled out all the stops, as over a 1000 people are working on the project.
Lord and Miller further stated that along with the increase of 200 characters from the first movie, it will also see multiple settings, as the film will take place in six different universes.
After giving fans a small blast with the Into the Spider-Verse, it looks like the sequel will build upon the original by taking the movie to the next level, and while fans have to patiently wait to another year for Across the Spider-Verse, the CinemaCon 2022 news about the project seems to have relaxed their minds about the delay.
