‘Let’s Go More Awesome': Inside the Making of ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’

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“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” Somehow, the movie is even more ambitious and complex than the original film. Not only is it significantly more complicated on a visual level, but the emotions this time around are even deeper, as we traverse the larger Spider-Verse with Miles and Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld), meet the hard-assed Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac) and ponder the question: can you even be Spider-Man without being saddled with a tragic backstory?TheWrap sat down with “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” writers and producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, along with the directors Kemp Powers, Justin K.

Thompson and Joaquim Dos Santos, to talk about where the film came from and where the next film (“Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,” out March 29, 2024) is going.“Across the Spider-Verse” has an entirely separate directorial posse than “Into the Spider-Verse” – directors Rodney Rothman (who also co-wrote the original film’s script with Lord), Peter Ramsey and Robert Persichetti moved on to other individual endeavors and were replaced with Powers, Thompson and Dos Santos.It was easy to see why they were initially chosen – Powers had just come from co-directing Pixar’s Oscar-winning “Soul” with Pete Docter; Thompson had been a production designer on “Into the Spider-Verse” and had worked with Lord and Miller since their directorial debut “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs;” and Dos Santos had directed episodes of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Legend of Korra.” (He also directed a better-received “Black Adam” movie than Dwayne Johnson made – 2010’s “Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam.”)“First of all, it’s so much movie.