Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Trivia | 62 facts about the film

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is a new animated film and a sequel to “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the new film.

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a 2023 American computer-animated superhero film
2. The film features the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales / Spider-Man
3. It is produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Marvel Entertainment
4. The film is distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing
5. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
6. It is set in a shared multiverse of alternate universes called the Spider-Verse
7. The film is directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
8. This marks their feature directorial debuts
9. From a screenplay written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and David Callaham
10. Lord and Miller also co-produced the film
11. 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
12. In the film, Miles goes on an adventure with Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman across the multiverse
13. There he meets a new team of Spider-People known as the Spider-Society, led by Miguel O’ Hara / Spider-Man 2099
14. Miles comes into conflict with them over handling a new threat
15. Sony began developing a sequel to Into the Spider-Verse before its 2018 release, with the writing and directing team attached
16. It was set to focus on the relationship between Moore’s Miles and Steinfeld’s Gwen
17. The sequel was officially announced in November 2019 and animation work began in June 2020
18. With a different visual style for each of the six universes visited by the characters
19. With a runtime of 140 minutes, it makes it the longest animated film produced by a studio in the Western territory
20. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse premiered at the Regency Village Theatre on May 30, 2023
21. The film was released in the United States on June 2
22. Having been delayed from an original October 2022 date due to the COVID-19 pandemic
23. Similar to its predecessor, the film has garnered universal acclaim from critics
24. A third film, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, is scheduled to be released on March 29, 2024
25. While a female-focused spin-off film is in development
26. By the end of November 2018, ahead of the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) the following month, Sony Pictures Animation had begun developing a sequel[37] due to the “incredible buzz” surrounding the project
27. The sequel was to continue the story of Shameik Moore’s Miles Morales / Spider-Man, working from “seeds [that were] planted” throughout the first film
28. Joaquim Dos Santos and David Callaham were set to direct and write, respectively, with Amy Pascal returning from the first film as producer
29. The other producers of the first film- Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Avi Arad, and Christina Steinberg – were all also expected to return in some capacities
30. The next month, Pascal revealed that the film would focus on Miles and Hailee Steinfeld’s Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman, exploring a romance between the characters that was cut from the first film, and that the sequel would be a “launching pad” for a previously announced female-focused spin-off film starring Steinfeld
31. Sony officially confirmed the sequel in November 2019, with a release date of April 8, 2022, with Lord and Miller returning as producers
32. In April 2020, Sony shifted the film’s release to October 7, 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
33. In February 2021, Miller said that he and Lord were working on the film’s screenplay with Callaham, and that Peter Ramsey would be an executive producer on the sequel after co-directing the first film
34. That April, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson were announced as co-directors alongside Dos Santos, and that all three had worked on the project since it began
35. Arad and Steinberg were confirmed to return as producers with Lord, Miller and Pascal, with Alonzo Ruvalcaba co-producing and Aditya Sood, Into the Spider-Verse directors Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman, and Rebecca Karch and Brian Michael Bendis joining Ramsey as executive producers
36. In December, Lord and Miller revealed that the film was being split into two parts: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) and (Part Two)
37. They had written the story they wanted to tell for the sequel and realized it was too much for one film
38. Work on both parts was taking place simultaneously
39. The sequels were renamed in April 2022, becoming Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
40. Their release dates were shifted then, with Across the Spider-Verse pushed back to June 2, 2023
41. Lord and Miller said that they had told Sony the sequel would be the same size as Into the Spider-Verse, but it ended up having the largest crew of any animated film ever, with around 1,000 people working on it
42. They added that the film had 240 characters and would take place across six universes
43. In the United States and Canada, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was released alongside The Boogeyman
44. The film is projected to gross around $80 million from 4,200 theaters in its opening weekend
45. With rival studios predicting it could reach $90 million
46. It made $17.35 million from Thursday night previews
47. This marks the second-best total for an animated film after Incredibles 2 ($18.5 million in 2018)
48. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds 95% rating
49. Based on 236 critics’ reviews
50. With an average rating of 8.7/10
51. The website’s consensus reads: “Just as visually dazzling and action-packed as its predecessor, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse thrills from start to cliffhanger conclusion”
52. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 86 out of 100
53. Based on 54 critics
54. Indicating “universal acclaim”
55. 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
56. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part Two) was expected at that point to be released in 2023
57. In April 2022, it was retitled Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse and given a release date of March 29, 2024
58. Sony began developing a Spider-Women film in November 2018 that would focus on three generations of female, Spider-related characters
59. Bek Smith was writing the spin-off, and Lauren Montgomery was in talks to direct
60. 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
61. 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
62. 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