Fans can be fickle, and they certainly don’t love it when films in their favorite franchises push back the sequels they’re waiting for.
Luckily, the Spider-Verse movies have been so incredibly good that fans are willing to wait for the next installment for as long as we have to. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse has been in the works for a few years now, and it is finally on the horizon.
Writer-producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, fresh off their Project Hail Mary success, recently told The Empire Podcast that progress is well underway for Beyond The Spider-Verse’s 2027 release.
“We are deep, deep in it,” says Miller. One of the key technical challenges this time around is trying to make an animated movie on the expanded 1.43:1 IMAX ratio.
“We’re actually going today to the IMAX headquarters to see what the footage looks like at scale, and make sure that it has the resolution that it needs to look gorgeous,” Miller notes.
“We’re chugging away in the edit room with the team, and it’s coming together really well. It’s a lot of movie, and a lot to do.” Safe to say, the pressure’s on. “You got to keep doing something that hasn’t been done before. That’s all you got to do,” deadpans Miller. “Easy!”
On such a huge canvas, audiences will get to see every moment up-close. “Details matter,” says Lord. “The thing that’s a joy about those pictures is that everyone on the crew is so good at what they do.
So you just sit around, marvel at all these brilliant artists, and then we get to work with these great filmmakers, sit in a room all day, and just try to make everything incrementally better together. It’s a lot of fun.”
We have just under a year to go before we get to see the incredible conclusion to Miles Morales’s animated story. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is set to be released in theaters on June 20, 2027.
