SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
An animated Spider-Man movie? In the midst of the character’s latest live-action reboot? Using six different iterations of the character, all but one of which are only known to die-hard comic book fans? A direct-to-video tie-in, right? Wrong: Not only was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse a big-screen box-office success, it also snagged an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film of 2018.
is a gleeful embrace of). Serving here as a producer/co-writer and producer, respectively, they have helped to craft something at once irreverent and deeply reverential, rewarding loyal readers and inviting the uninitiated to swing along on a mind-bending adventure. There are radioactive spiders and young bite victims, but when a hole in the space/time continuum is ripped open, Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore)—the latest costumed wall-crawler—comes face-to-face with different doppelgängers from five other dimensions. Together, they must find a way to send themselves back where they all belong, and stop the villain responsible, using methods unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.
