Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a 2023 American computer-animated superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales / Spider-Man, produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Marvel Entertainment, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and is set in a shared multiverse of alternate universes called the "Spider-Verse". The film is directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson (in their feature directorial debuts), from a screenplay written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller (who both also co-produce), and David Callaham. Shameik Moore voices Miles, starring alongside Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Vélez, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Issa Rae, Karan Soni, Daniel Kaluuya and Oscar Isaac. In the film, Miles goes on an adventure with Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman across the multiverse where he meets a new team of Spider-People, known as the Spider-Society, led by Miguel O' Hara / Spider-Man 2099, but comes into conflict with them over handling a new threat.
Plot[]
Sixteen months after the destruction of the Alchemax collider, on Earth-65 Gwen Stacy is struggling to live up to the expectations of her father, who does not know she is Spider-Woman and is hunting her in revenge because of his belief that she caused this universe's Peter Parker's death. One night, after hearing about a possible intruder in the Guggenheim Museum, she heads over to confront the threat, only to run into a Renaissance-themed Vulture that comes from an alternate universe.
Shortly afterward, Miguel O'Hara and Jessica Drew arrive through portals and subdue Vulture. In the aftermath, Gwen reveals herself to her father, who is distraught and attempts to arrest her. Drew suggests to a reluctant O'Hara that Gwen join the "Spider-Society," to which he begrudgingly accepts. The three then leave Earth-65. Back on Earth-1610, in Brooklyn, Miles Morales is adapting to being Spider-Man as well as struggling to live up to his parents' expectations while mourning the departure of Gwen. On the day of his evaluation at school with his parents, he visits a convenience store where he encounters Spot, a scientist who got infused with portals on his body in the aftermath of the explosion of the collider at Alchemax.
After a brief fight, Miles subdues Spot, but he eventually breaks out and confronts him again and brings him to Alchemax, blaming him for his dilemma before accidentally transporting himself into a void where he begins using his portals to travel to other universes with the Alchemax collider. Later, Gwen travels to Miles while secretly watching Spot, who created his own collider and is becoming even more dangerous. Drew contacts Gwen and instructs her to leave Miles behind to confront Spot, but unbeknownst to them, Miles follows them into the portal. In Mumbattan on Earth-50101, they encounter Pavitr Prabhakar and Hobie Brown before confronting Spot in the Alchemax collider who successfully absorbs the device's power before escaping.
Mumbattan begins falling apart from the disruption of a "canon event" after Miles saves a captain, who turns out to be Prabhakar's girlfriend's father. Members of the Spider-Society arrive to assess the damage of the dimensional anomaly, while Miles, Gwen, Prabhakar, and Brown are sent to the headquarters on Earth-928, where hundreds of Spider-Man variants reside. They meet up with O'Hara, who tells Miles that he is risking the destruction of the multiverse, as Miles was not supposed to be in Mumbattan; though Peter B. Parker arrives to defend Miles with his daughter, Mayday, O'Hara explains how "canon" works in each Spider-Man's story and the fabric of the multiverse, and that all Spider-Men must suffer sacrifices to maintain a stable multiverse.
Miles realizes that his father, newly appointed as captain, dying at the hands of Spot is a canon event and flees to save him, causing Brown to quit the Society and O'Hara to order all the Spider-People to apprehend Miles. After a long chase, O'Hara strikes down Miles, telling him that he never was supposed to become Spider-Man, with the spider that bit him actually being from an alternate universe, making Miles the first canon anomaly. Miles breaks free, heading back to his home world to save his father. Seeing Gwen as a liability, O'Hara kicks her out of the Spider-Society and sends her back to her universe. When she realizes her father has resigned as police captain, Gwen believes that canon events can be rewritten and decides to find Miles. Gwen leaves using a bootleg watch Brown had given to her father addressed to her. Arriving back in his apartment, Miles reveals to his mother that he is Spider-Man, whom she appears not to recognize. He encounters his uncle, Aaron Davis, and Miles realizes that he is in Earth-42, the dimension home to the spider that originally bit him, where his father has already died, and that this world has no Spider-Man.
Aaron interrogates Miles as to who he is, and Miles realizes that Aaron is not the Prowler before he is encountered by the Miles of Earth-42, who has become the Prowler. O'Hara, Drew, and Ben Reilly arrive to find Miles on Earth-1610 just as the Spot arrives to kill Miles' father. Gwen, after speaking with Rio and Jefferson on Earth-1610, assembles a team with Peter B., Mayday, Prabhakar, Brown, Margo Kess, Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker, and Spider-Ham to find Miles.
Cast[]
- Shameik Moore as Miles Morales/Spider-Man and Miles Morales of Earth-42/Prowler
- Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman
- Oscar Isaac as Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099
- Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker/Spider-Man
- Issa Rae as Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman
- Brian Tyree Henry as Jefferson Davis
- Karan Soni as Pavitr Prabhakar/Spider-Man India
- Daniel Kaluuya as Hobie Brown/Spider-Punk
- Lauren Vélez as Rio Morales and Rio Morales of Earth-42
- Shea Whigham as George Stacy
- Greta Lee as Lyla
- Jorma Taccone as Adriano Tumino/Vulture and '67 Spider-Man
- Rachel Dratch as Ms. Weber
- Mahershala Ali as Aaron Davis of Earth-42
- Kimiko Glenn as Peni Parker
- Ziggy Marley as Lenny
- J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
- Elizabeth Perkins as May Parker and Quippy Spider-Man
- Nicole Delaney as MJ
- Antonia Lentini as Betty
- Atsuko Okatsuko as Yuri Wantanabe
- Peter Sohn as Ganke Lee
- Melissa Sturm as Mary Jane
- Lorraine Velez as Maria
- Nic Noviki as LEGO Spider-Man
- Taran Killam as Patrick O'Hara/Web-Slinger and Widow
- Metro Boomin as Metro Spider-Man
- Josh Keaton as Spectacular Spider-Man
- Sofia Barclay as Malala Windsor/Spider-UK
- Danielle Perez as Charlotte Webber/Sun-Spider
- Yuri Lowenthal as Insomniac Spider-Man
- Michael Rianda as Ezekiel Sims/Spider-Therapist
- Andy Samberg as Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider
- Jason Schwartzman as Jonathan Ohnn/Spot
- Amandla Stenberg as Margo Kess/Spider-Byte
- Jack Quaid as Peter Parker/Lizard of Earth-65
- Peggy Lu as Mrs. Chen
- Donald Glover as Aaron Davis/Prowler
- Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Amazing Spider-Man (archive footage)
- Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (archive footage)
- Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man Noir (archive audio)
- John Mulaney as Spider-Ham (archive audio)
- Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus (archive audio)
- Denis Leary as George Stacy (archive footage)
- Cliff Robertson as Ben Parker (archive footage)
Future[]
Sequel[]
Main article: Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
A third film was confirmed when Lord and Miller revealed in December 2021 that the Into the Spider-Verse sequel was being split into two films. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part Two) was expected at that point to be released in 2023. In April 2022, it was renamed Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse and given a release date of March 29, 2024.
Spin-Off[]
Sony began developing a Spider-Women film in November 2018 that would focus on three generations of female, Spider-related characters. Bek Smith was writing the spin-off, and Lauren Montgomery was in talks to direct. Pascal said the film would focus on the characters Gwen Stacy / Spider-Gwen, Cindy Moon / Silk, and Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman, and said Across the Spider-Verse would serve as a "launching pad" for it.
Manga Spin-Off[]
On May 29, 2023, it was announced that a manga spin-off titled Spider-Man: Octopus Girl written by Hideyuki Furuhashi and illustrated by Betten Court will begin serialization on June 20 on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ website and app. The story revolves around Doctor Octopus who falls into a coma and has been reawakened in the body of a young Japanese middle schooler Otoha Okutamiya.
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