Miles ahead
When we first got approached by Amy [Pascal] and Avi [Arad, producers] to do the movie, we basically said, ‘We think that’s a terrible idea!’” laughs Phil Lord, co-producer and co-writer of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. But Lord and his creative partner, Christopher Miller, have a habit of taking terrible ideas — a movie based on 21 Jump Street, another based on frickin’ Lego — and Rumpelstiltskinning them into piles of gold. And the key that brought them back was the idea of playing with a new Spider-Man. Over the course of almost 60 years, six live-action movies, one live-action TV series and more animated shows than you could shoot a web at, Peter Parker had had his shot. And while the idea of multiple universes that underpins Spider-Verse means that there’s no shortage of Peter Parkers running around, Lord and Miller wanted their central message to be that anyone can wear the mask. So their thoughts turned to Miles Morales.
diversity, he’s also Afro-Latino. “Miles was the way to tell what was universal about Spider-Man by putting it through a different, very specific
