How the Spider-Verse Movies impacted animation
So, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse just released and it is phenomenal. It’s just as good if not better than its predecessor and really has me excited for the next movie in this trilogy and how it will wrap up the story of this version of Miles. And while a discussion of the movie is entirely worthy of its own post, I’m actually here instead to discuss how the first Spider-Verse movie impacted animation when it first released and how it continues to impact that genre as a whole, let’s talk about it. BEFORE RELEASE So before we talk about how the movies impacted animation, we need to go back a long way. Plans for an animated Spider-Man movie go back as far as 2015 when it was officially announced that Phil Lord and Chris Miller would be writing a movie for Sony who by this point were in the aftermath of the Amazing Spider-Man 2’s failure and had to partner with Marvel to bring Peter Parker into the MCU. In 2016, Lord and Miller completed a script for the movie and Sony ch...