Miles Morales
Miles Gonzalo Morales
Movie
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023 · 140 min
Gwen Stacy is a fugitive in her own universe because her father is investigating her for a murder she did not commit, and she has been recruited into a Spider-Society that polices the multiverse…
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The story
Gwen Stacy is a fugitive in her own universe because her father is investigating her for a murder she did not commit, and she has been recruited into a Spider-Society that polices the multiverse. Miles is grounded, lying to his parents about his grades and about everything else.
The Spot, a scientist turned into a walking hole by the first film's collider, becomes a genuine multiversal threat, and Miguel O'Hara's Society will not stop him because Miles' father is scheduled to die and canon requires it. The film's climax is a boy told by six hundred versions of himself that his family has to die, and refusing.
Key facts
- Release date
- 2 Jun 2023
- Status
- Released
- Phase
- Non-MCU
- Saga
- Sony Spider-Verse
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Certificate
- PG
- Director
- Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
- Writers
- Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, David Callaham
- Streaming
- Netflix
- Timeline placement
- Earth-1610, Earth-65, Nueva York in 2099 and Mumbattan — continuing directly from Into the Spider-Verse
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Shameik Moore | Miles Morales (voice) |
| Hailee Steinfeld | Gwen Stacy (voice) |
| Oscar Isaac | Miguel O'Hara (voice) |
| Jason Schwartzman | The Spot (voice) |
| Daniel Kaluuya | Hobie Brown / Spider-Punk (voice) |
| Issa Rae | Jessica Drew (voice) |
Characters
Easter eggs
- Donald Glover appears in live action as Aaron Davis, held in a Spider-Society containment cell, paying off both his Homecoming cameo and his 2010 fan campaign to play Spider-Man.
- The Spider-Society's hall includes live-action footage of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, the 1967 cartoon, Japanese Spider-Man's Leopardon, and hundreds of print variants.
- Spider-Punk is animated in a collage style at a different frame rate from everyone else, with visible ripped-paper edges and screen-printed textures.
- The Lego Spider-Man sequence was animated by Preston Mutanga, a fourteen-year-old whose Lego version of the trailer went viral and who Sony then hired.
- The Vulture from Earth-13 is rendered as a moving Leonardo da Vinci sketch on parchment.
- Mumbattan's Spider-Man India, Pavitr Prabhakar, comes from the 2004 Spider-Man: India comic.
- The 'canon event' framework riffs on decades of Spider-Man continuity, including the Uncle Ben and Captain Stacy deaths that recur across every version.
- Miles' Earth-42 counterpart is the Prowler, an inversion built entirely from the first film's Aaron Davis thread.
Trivia
- More than a thousand people worked on the film across multiple studios, and the credits are among the longest in animation.
- Six distinct visual styles were developed, with each universe given its own line quality, frame rate and colour treatment.
- It ends on a hard cliffhanger, with Beyond the Spider-Verse originally dated 2024 and since delayed without a confirmed release date.
- Preston Mutanga, then fourteen, was hired to animate the Lego sequence after his fan-made trailer recreation went viral.
- Artists anonymously described severe crunch conditions to Vulture and other outlets after release, with reports of over a hundred people leaving during production.
- Daniel Kaluuya improvised a significant amount of Spider-Punk's dialogue, and the character's animation was built around his line delivery.
- At 140 minutes it is the longest American animated feature ever released theatrically at the time.
Box office
- Budget
- $100 million
- Worldwide
- $690.9 million
- Domestic
- $381.3 million
Reviews
Critics
96%
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse spins another stunning web of superhero action, and this sequel's dazzling animation is matched by a thoughtfully layered story.
The MarvelGossips verdict
Visually the most ambitious animated film ever attempted, and structurally half of a movie, which is the one thing holding it back from surpassing the original. Gwen's opening act is the most beautiful sequence in either film. Ending on a cliffhanger was a gamble that has looked worse with every year Beyond the Spider-Verse fails to arrive.
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Frequently asked
When is Beyond the Spider-Verse released?
Sony has not confirmed a release date. It was originally dated March 2024, then pulled indefinitely amid the 2023 strikes and reported production issues, and remains undated as of July 2026.
What is a canon event?
The Spider-Society's doctrine that certain traumas — a mentor's death, a police-captain father's death — must occur in every Spider-Person's life or their universe collapses. Miles rejects the premise, which is the film's central conflict.
Is Donald Glover's cameo live action?
Yes. He appears on screen as Aaron Davis in a Spider-Society holding cell, connecting his Spider-Man: Homecoming role, his 2010 fan campaign to play Spider-Man and his voice work as Miles in Ultimate Spider-Man.
Who animated the Lego sequence?
Preston Mutanga, a Toronto teenager who was fourteen when his shot-for-shot Lego recreation of the trailer went viral. Sony hired him to animate the Earth-13122 sequence in the finished film.