Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is an upcoming American animated superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales / Spider-Man. Produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, it is the direct sequel to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and the final installment in the Spider-Verse trilogy. Shameik Moore stars as the voice of Miles, alongside an ensemble cast featuring Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Vélez, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Karan Soni, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Daniel Kaluuya, Mahershala Ali, Nicolas Cage, and Oscar Isaac. Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson direct the film from a screenplay by the writing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller alongside David Callaham.
Sony began developing a sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse before its 2018 release. During production, the sequel was split into two films—Across the Spider-Verse and Beyond the Spider-Verse—that were being worked on concurrently. The latter was initially given a March 2024 release date, before the former was prioritized. Lord and Miller described Beyond as more emotional than its predecessors due to its focus on Miles attempting to save his family, with the story continuing directly from the cliffhanger ending of Across. The script and animation for Beyond subsequently changed significantly during production, which was temporarily suspended by the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, while Sony unscheduled the film from its release date to give the filmmakers and animators enough time to complete their work. After the second film's release and the end of the strike, production resumed in December 2023. The writers and directors were revealed a year later, after they worked on the previous installments, and it was rescheduled for a 2027 release in early 2025, by which point voice recording was underway with several returning actors.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is scheduled to be released by Sony Pictures in the United States on June 18, 2027.
Premise Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse begins immediately after the events of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), following Miles Morales trapped and on the run in an alternate universe while trying to save his family.
Voice cast Shameik Moore as Miles Morales / Spider-Man: A teenager who took over as the Spider-Man of Earth-1610 after the death of his reality's Peter Parker and is trapped in an alternate universe, Earth-42 Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy / Spider-Gwen: A version of Gwen Stacy who is the Spider-Woman of Earth-65 and Miles's love interest Brian Tyree Henry as Jefferson Morales (nee Davis): Miles's father and a police officer, who was recently promoted to captain Lauren Vélez as Rio Morales: Miles's mother and a nurse Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker / Spider-Man: An older Spider-Man from Earth-616B and Miles's mentor who is now married to his reality's Mary Jane Watson and has a daughter named Mayday Jason Schwartzman as Dr. Johnathon Ohnn / The Spot:A supervillain and former Alchemax scientist who, after an accident, became covered with interdimensional portals that allow him to travel through space and different universes. Miles's nemesis, he sets out to destroy their home universe and murder Miles's father. Karan Soni as Pavitr Prabhakar / Spider-Man India: An alternate universe version of Peter Parker based in Mumbattan, India John Mulaney as Peter Porker / Spider-Ham: A talking animal-based Spider-Man from a cartoon-like anthropomorphic universe, who was once a spider, bitten by a radioactive pig Daniel Kaluuya as Hobie Brown / Spider-Punk: A punk rock version of Spider-Man from Earth-138 who uses his guitar as his main weapon Mahershala Ali as Aaron Davis: The Earth-42 version of Miles's deceased uncle Nicolas Cage as Peter Parker / Spider-Man Noir: A Spider-Man from a monochromatic universe set in the 1930s Kimiko Glenn as Peni Parker / SP//dr: A young Japanese-American girl from an alternative and anime-like universe who copilots her late father's biomechanical suit with a radioactive spider that she shares a telepathic link with Oscar Isaac as Miguel O'Hara / Spider-Man 2099: A "ninja-vampire" Spider-Man from Earth-928 set in the year 2099, who is the leader of the Spider-Society, a group of Spider-People from alternate universes tasked with protecting the multiverse
Additional cast members reprising their voice roles from the previous Spider-Verse films are Marvin Jones III as Lonnie Lincoln / Tombstone, an albino gangster, Greta Lee as Lyla, the artificial intelligence assistant for the Spider-Society and Miguel O'Hara, and Jharrel Jerome as the Earth-42 version of Miles G. Morales / The Prowler.
Production Development Initial work, production shifts, and delays By November 2018, ahead of the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) the next month, Sony Pictures Animation had begun development on a sequel to the film. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller returned from the first film as producers. After writing down the story they wanted to tell for the sequel, which featured the character the Spot as the villain, while a planned third film was in early development, they realized that it was too much for a single film and decided to split the second film into two parts by February 2021. This was revealed in December 2021 along with the titles Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) and (Part Two). Work on both parts was taking place simultaneously, with Lord and Miller working on them with directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson. The second part was initially expected to be released in 2023, but in April 2022 it was given a release date of March 29, 2024, when Sony Pictures pushed the release of the first part from October 2022 to June 2023. The two films were renamed at that time, becoming Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. Around this time, major aspects of the third film's script, storyboards, and some visual development work and concept tests that occurred when the film was being developed as the second part were reportedly shelved and put on hold so those resources could be used to complete the second film first. By then, Beyond the Spider-Verse was internally not expected to meet its March 2024 release date, which was deemed unrealistic due to the film's technical aspects and high expectations, and it was not expected to be released until 2026 or 2027. During the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2022, Sony announced that the Spot would serve as the antagonist in both Across the Spider-Verse and Beyond the Spider-Verse.
In May 2023, Miller said that while the beginning and ending of Beyond the Spider-Verse had been relatively figured out, the middle was "still a little squishy". Following the release of Across the Spider-Verse the next month, Lord and Miller said that Beyond would conclude the Spider-Verse trilogy and Miles Morales's story arc. They also responded to reports of potential delays and a lack of production progress, saying the production would take a necessary amount of time to complete the film and that they would not reserve a release date if it did not align with their schedule. At that time, Sony reportedly restarted work on the script, which did not include an ending. In July, Sony removed Beyond the Spider-Verse from its release schedule due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, which prevented the voice cast from recording dialogue. Sony subsequently gave Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire the March 2024 date, and a new release date was expected to be scheduled in the following weeks. After the strike ended in November, voice recording was set to resume imminently, although it was unclear if the film would still be released in 2024. Production had resumed by December 2023.
In June 2024, composer Daniel Pemberton said the creative team was "beavering away" on the film. He admitted that they felt pressured in making the film as the trilogy's conclusion because they had set a high bar for themselves, explaining that they sought to avoid repeating the "mistakes" of the third installments in other franchises, such as The Godfather Part III (1990). Karan Soni, who voices Pavitr Prabhakar / Spider-Man India, said in August that voice recording was slated to begin in "a few months" and that the film was "deep in production". The following month, journalist Jeff Sneider reported that Beyond the Spider-Verse was unlikely to be released until 2027 at the earliest. He said this was to allow the animators more time to work on the film after several scenes were scrapped and changed, and because Sony was not expected to release it within the same calendar year as its live-action film Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which was scheduled for release in July 2026; Sony ultimately did not plan to release the film in 2025. Sneider reported that this delay surprised some of its animators, who were said to be relieved by the decision. Pemberton and Miller subsequently denied that a majority of the film had been "scrapped" as previously reported, saying that the film reels were being produced.
Continued work post-delays Bob Persichetti and Thompson were confirmed to be directing Beyond the Spider-Verse in December 2024, when Jinko Gotoh joined as a producer, while Lord and Miller were confirmed to have written the script with Across the Spider-Verse co-writer David Callaham; Persichetti was a co-director of Into the Spider-Verse and an executive producer of Across the Spider-Verse, whereas Thompson was a production designer on the first film and a co-director of the latter. While Powers and Dos Santos were expected to return as directors from Across the Spider-Verse alongside Thompson, Miller clarified that Persichetti and Thompson were the directors since production began. In January 2025, Jharrel Jerome—the voice actor for the Earth-42 version of Miles G. Morales / Prowler—said voice recording had yet to begin because the production was still "figuring out" several details, but felt positive about the process. At Sony's CinemaCon panel in March, the trio of Lord, Persichetti, and Thompson acknowledged the importance of the Spider-Verse franchise to several audiences. The pair announced the film's new release date of June 4, 2027, explaining that they "could not run it back" and were ensuring they were taking enough time to make the film right. In July 2025, the release date was delayed by three weeks to June 25, 2027, but was moved up in September 2025 to June 18, 2027.
In February 2026, Sony Pictures Animation co-presidents Damien de Froberville and Kristine Belson said that Lord and Miller were able to frequently "iterate" and provide notes on Beyond the Spider-Verse while the story was being developed, which allowed for fewer changes in animation sequences towards the end of production. They said this was complemented by Lord and Miller editing their film Project Hail Mary (2026) on the Sony Pictures Studios lot, allowing them to collaborate closely with the Beyond the Spider-Verse crew. Lord and Miller reiterated their desire to elevate the film from its predecessors, and cited the main contributor to the delays as the crew "[h]aving to take it apart to put it back together again". The following month, Lord and Miller reaffirmed that Beyond the Spider-Verse was on schedule to meet its June 2027 release date, adding in early July that the crew was well into the editing process, which he said was "coming together really well", and were focused on incrementally improving the film.
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