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    'Spidey' sense: Experimental innovation is a superpower for Sony hit 'Into the Spider-Verse'

    by Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times Dec 27, 2018 6 minutes

    "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" was something of a creative dare when filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller first pitched their idea to Sony executives in 2014, the same year their animated smash "The Lego Movie" put an unexpected CG animated twist on the classic toy bricks.

    Coming off of two "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" hits with Sony Pictures Animation, the rising duo proposed a fresh take on one of Hollywood's most oft-rebooted superheroes: Tell the story of Miles Morales, the post-millennial African American-Latino Brooklyn teen who takes up the Spider mantle after Peter Parker's demise in his corner of the Marvel multiverse.

    They wanted to present the Spidey tale in an all-new visual language, conjuring the feeling of being inside the pages of a living, breathing comic book with a dynamism befitting the character introduced in 2011 by Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli.

    "But," laughed Miller, looking back on that initial pitch as "Spider-Verse" was swinging

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