![]() ![]() He had been such an inspiration to us and to the movie itself. But when we went to his office to record him, and the director showed him the character design of how he’d look, he was so happy to be involved. We were finishing up to the very last minute and we wanted to get him to see it, but he was not feeling well enough. There’s a lot of things like that, that we wanted to seed in there, just so that it fleshed out this world and told you, this is parallel to ours, but not exactly the same.įurther Reading: What Motivates Miles Morales as Spider-ManĪnd of course, there’s a great cameo by Stan Lee. Lord: We also wanted to depict an alternate universe, so there’s all of these different weird posters, and there’s Coca-Cola in Jake’s world, but there’s Coca-Soda in Miles’ and it looks just like a generic thing, and then you realize, “Oh my God, there’s actually a point to that.” And that was in the script, but like, there would be all these generic brands that feel like “Oh, I guess they didn’t clear Coca Cola,” but it’s actually just a way to depict the alternate universe and that’s why this Miles’ universe is one in which Steph Curry is the best golfer in the world and one where Blake Griffin is a baseball player, and there’s a movie called Hold your Horses, starring Seth Rogen. ![]() And if you’ve never read a comic book in your entire life, and you’ve never even seen a superhero movie in your entire life, you can come into this thing and watch the story about a kid trying to figure out his way in the world, his relationship with his family and finding a group of friends and coming into his own. Miller: That’s really fun about the movie, is that if you are a hardcore comic book nerd, there is so much in here, and you literally can pause it and find hundreds of little details of things. Miller: Literally hundreds, because the animation world and comic book nerd world overlap quite a bit, it turns out. There are clearly all kinds of Easter eggs in the movie that people will have to pore over the Blu-Ray to see. We certainly talked about so many other Spider-characters and just the idea of the multiverse allows a lot of possibility for anything in the future, but this was as many as we could get in here. So we crammed it with as much as we could and still have it feel balanced. Let’s see where he’s at a little bit later in his career. ![]() So, we went to that, and from there, we wondered, gosh, to make it like a movie event, there’s something neat about him crashing, or rather, Peter crashing into Miles’ world for a little bit. Phil Lord: I mean, everything started with Miles, and it started with the idea that we wanted to make a completely different kind of superhero movie, and what are the moves that we could do that would shake up a Spider-Man story? It started with, “Well, it should be somebody different in the suit.” And we love Miles’ comic and we love his relationship with his family and we thought that was such a refreshing way to look at the character. After this, we’d be happy to see them stay at the wheel of the Spider-Verse for as long as possible.ĭen of Geek: How did this all start for you? here, and seeing him make the leap from the comics to the screen as Spider-Man is a moment of powerful and resonating significance.ĭen of Geek got the chance to speak about all this with Lord and Miller, who have directed gems like 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie (as well as an abandoned version of Solo: A Star Wars Story) and have toyed with dipping into the live-action superhero realm with projects like The Flash. Black/Latino high school student Miles Morales (voiced expertly by Shameik Moore) is the youngster who gains great responsibility, etc. In terms of story, character and theme it’s a groundbreaker too. On a purely visual level it’s a thing of beauty. They’ve made perhaps the first comic book movie that truly looks from start to finish like it’s jumped right off the page, blending old-school and current animation techniques, both digital and analog, to subtly make every single shot in the movie seem like a comic book panel even if it’s not stationary. What Miller, Lord, Rothman and fellow co-directors Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey have done is a revelation. ![]() Just when critics who are generally down on the genre might be polishing up those “there is nothing new for the superhero movie to do” thinkpieces, producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord (the latter also a co-writer with co-director Rodney Rothman) have brought us Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the first full-length animated superhero film to get a theatrical release since Batman: Mask of the Phantasm way back in the relative dark ages of 1993. ![]()
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