With only two months to go until the long-awaited release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, we’re finally getting bigger hints as to what this movie is about. And it’s about Oscar Isaac yelling! Just kidding: It’s about Miles making his own path when everyone else is trying to tell him how his story goes.
Also, there’s a spider-baby!
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The baby belongs to a different Spider-Man, obviously, and there are many; this trailer levels up on the Spider-Man: No Way Home use of the pointing meme joke by a factor of, uh, lots. Here’s the summary:
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
As a side note, this is how you do trailers: make each one a tiny bit more tantalizing, and a tiny bit more revealing! Now we know Miles has multiple problems: the Spot (Jason Schwartzman); his grades, maybe; his wish to join a new spider-crew; and his desires being at odds with those of Spider-Man 2099 (Isaac), who seems to be the crew’s leader, and who also seems to have some pretty firm ideas about how the spider-world works.
And this is only part one! Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse will follow next year.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is directed by Kemp Powers (a writer on Star Trek: Discovery), Joaquim Dos Santos (Avatar: The Last Airbender), and Justin K. Thompson (production designer on the first movie), with a screenplay by Phil Lord, returning producer Christopher Miller, and David Callaham (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings).
Swing into theaters on June 2nd.
