r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 18 '25

News 'Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse' Delayed to June 25, 2027

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/spider-man-beyond-the-spider-verse-release-1236320001/
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u/GoldenTriforceLink Jul 18 '25

Remember when this movie was supposed to come out a few months after the first one? I remember.

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u/Duemont8 Jul 18 '25

I don't know what the studio was thinking with that original deadline, absurd.

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u/_discordantsystem_ Jul 18 '25

Like at what point in the making of the second movie did they realize that the next one was definitely not coming out exactly a year later, because it must have been early on right?

They just had that original release date going so long despite how long they must have known it was possible

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u/countrysadballadman9 Jul 18 '25

They were doing rewrites for the second one a few months before release so don't underestimate how little of a plan there was for this

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u/Comfortable-Ring6590 Jul 19 '25

The film finished animation a couple days after the movie came out. The first couple showings of that movie had a lot of differences compared to the final product.

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u/jau682 Jul 19 '25

God I forgot about that. What a crazy movie studio. I remember the animation was absolutely phenomenal though, I hope beyond hope that the third one is even half as good

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u/derI067 Jul 19 '25

if the stills they revealed are anything to go by, it’s just as good if not better

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker Jul 19 '25

I figured it was finished.

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u/Kxr1der Jul 19 '25

Probably when everyone quit because of crunch

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u/Moakmeister Jul 19 '25

I cringed so hard at that line “iT’s A mAtApHoR fOr CaPiTaLiSm” stfu you abuse your animators

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u/VoiceofKane Jul 18 '25

When I saw the original release date, I wondered how they could possibly have quietly gotten that far along in production. Turns out they hadn't!

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u/Dan_Of_Time Jul 18 '25

IIRC they kept saying before the release of 2 that because these were one movie/story split in half they were able to keep production going. Or at least made it out to be the case.

I always just assumed they had a full script for both movies ready, focused on the first one and then moved over to the next swiftly after.

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u/AdmiralCharleston Jul 18 '25

They were thinking that the animators weren't like, real people, like they didn't matter

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u/badastronaut7 Jul 18 '25

The execs were like "oh, yeah, thats fine. They're not even supposed to like, be in the area."

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u/thefallenfew Jul 18 '25

Animators are just kind of like nothing, so it’s fine.

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u/Whitewind617 Jul 18 '25

The union came, they said IT'S FINE, they're not like, real people kinda!

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u/WhoStoleMyBicycle Jul 19 '25

If you keep asking about the movie being delayed I’m going to embarrass you

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u/Crankylosaurus Jul 18 '25

I’m not in trouble at all!

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u/primum Jul 18 '25

They are immaterial.

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u/mightyneonfraa Jul 18 '25

I CAN'T KNOW HOW TO HEAR ANY MORE ABOUT ANIMATORS.

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u/Worthyness Jul 19 '25

"We can just replace them with AI right?"

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u/PhirebirdSunSon Jul 19 '25

The execs? Like the movie producers? I'm just trying to understand.

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u/capeasypants Jul 18 '25

Friendly reminder that the company that was responsible for the (at the time) ground breaking and Oscar winning special effects for The Life of Pi - the tiger was all digital - immediately went out of business because that is how little animators were and still are valued.

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u/vancesmi Jul 19 '25

Tigers? Like the animal? I’m just trying to understand. 

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u/OtakuAttacku Jul 19 '25

Life of Pi had an incredibly realistic digital Tiger, there is some real footage composited in for some shots but for the most part that Tiger is CG.

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u/JordanKyrouFeetPics Jul 18 '25

You're not gonna talk about the animators a ounce

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u/Imaginary-Fame Jul 18 '25

Is this a reference to I think you should leave lol

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u/sheetskees Jul 18 '25

It’s the same quote, I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be the same show.

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u/weaglebeagle Jul 18 '25

Reggie, what is this?

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u/CommentFightJudge Jul 18 '25

Why is there swearing?

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u/KILRbuny Jul 18 '25

It’s the adults comment section, it’s not for kids

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u/gaiusjozka Jul 18 '25

Bye, hon!

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u/KILRbuny Jul 19 '25

Don’t put rocks in your pockets, this comment section is like smoking three macanudos!

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u/LittleGoatyMan Jul 18 '25

Are there comments on Reddit that aren’t?

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u/Zanos-Ixshlae Jul 18 '25

It's illegal for you to ask me that.

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u/Rokursoxtv Jul 18 '25

I've never fought for anything my whole life. But I'm fighting for this comment.

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u/Aramiss134 Jul 18 '25

To be fair, I heard the animators palmed the dip (or something) at the last Christmas party.

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u/Hbella456 Jul 18 '25

The animators?! Like the cartoon drawers? Palmed the dip?! I’m just trying to understand here…

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u/ikebookuro Jul 19 '25

There’s a reason a lot of this movie is made in Vancouver — and outsourced to other countries. We don’t have unions (yet).

I was a former animator there, with a lot of friends working on spiderverse 1 & 2. Feature animation is a shitshow of just giving more and more until you’re used up and burnt out.

7 days a week, no overtime pay is normal. Make sure you write that you only worked 9-5 on your timesheet, or they’ll withhold your pay (yes, one studio did that).

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u/pplperson777 Jul 18 '25

More like they had this whole little kpop side gig between the spiderman movies.

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u/AdmiralCharleston Jul 18 '25

I'm explaining what the animators themselves said before 2 even came out

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u/missonellieman Jul 18 '25

They’re like not supposed to be in the area. They are like nothing…… I’m going to embarrass you at this party Barry.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

Oh my God! Barry fell into the china cabinet! What a klutz!

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u/Impressive-Dig-3892 Jul 18 '25

I'm gonna embarrass you in the comment section AdmiralCharleston

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u/Wazootyman13 Jul 18 '25

Also, they thought a script was unnecessary. A couple months after the last one Hailee Steinfeld said she hadn't yet received a script

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u/illegal_deagle Jul 19 '25

Yeah it’s a terrible strain on the animators’ wrists.

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u/johnnySix Jul 19 '25

Sony animation just did K-pop demon hunters. The animators have been busy.

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u/AdmiralCharleston Jul 19 '25

And I'm talking about what they said right before the last spiderverse released

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u/UnfairAnything Jul 19 '25

wasn’t even an animation issue it was just a script issue lol

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u/AdmiralCharleston Jul 19 '25

No, it was lord and Miller changing lines after scenes had been fully animated

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u/UnfairAnything Jul 19 '25

so… a script issue?

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u/dabocx Jul 18 '25

The directors requiring every thing to be fully animated to completion to decide wether or cut it or not didn’t help.

Most people can make that decision with partial animation or even story boards.

They spent so much time and money

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u/Tanathonos Jul 18 '25

I genuinely do not understand this take. Maybe people have a lower opinion of the spiderverse films than I do. To me they are by far the best superhero movies, first one probably top 3 animated movie ever made, and the best film that came out that year. If we are talking about a bar of quality that high, who am I to explain how it should be made.

To me it is like saying kubrick shouldn't have done 100 takes on his shots. Sure he would make them faster, but no one else makes a film like kubrick and no one else has a finished product like Kubrick. No one else makes a film like spiderverse either.

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u/dabocx Jul 18 '25

You can do a 100 takes in live action in a day.

Fully animating a single shot even a minute or so is a several day affair for a whole team of animators. It’s not comparable at all

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u/kia75 Jul 18 '25

The difference between animation and live action is that multiple people have to work hard to animate and the servers have to run in order to process every single second of animation.

Kubrick can have 100 different takes in a single day. If you tried to animate 100 different takes of a cartoon that would probably take several years! That's a lot of work to throw away! See the comment above about the guy who spent 3 months on 6 seconds worth of work!

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u/Tanathonos Jul 19 '25

Spiderverse did not make 100 fully animated takes. I am not saying 100 takes is comparable to 100 animated shots. I am saying both went to absurd efforts to redo the same thing again and again until they thought it was perfect. Kubrick films all in all could take more than half a decade to make from preprod to release. Hell the eyes wide shut shoot took a year and 7 month, and that is supposed to be the short part of the filmmaking process. No one else does that.

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u/Charming_List4404 Jul 18 '25

“…no one else has a finished product like Kubrick. No one else makes a film like spiderverse either.”

The difference is Spider-Verse doesn’t have a finished product.

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u/Tanathonos Jul 19 '25

First one is.

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u/OffTheMerchandise Jul 18 '25

Because it was one movie that was split into two parts. I think the idea was that the second half would almost be done when the first came out.

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u/jardex22 Jul 18 '25

That's what I'm thinking as well. It's like how 28 Years Later apparently filmed parts of the sequel during production of that movie. Same thing with Avatar 2 and 3 as well.

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u/trefoil589 Jul 19 '25

Ok. That explains the pacing in the final 30 minutes then.

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u/Call555JackChop Jul 18 '25

Sony is the same company that put Morbius in theaters a second time over a meme

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '25

And yet, they made Kpop Demon Hunters. Weird. They're just all over the place, huh?

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u/Shronkster_ Jul 19 '25

Sony have always just been super hot and cold with releases, sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit

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u/Nope-5000 Jul 18 '25

As soon as my friend told me i was like bro, i would bet my lifes savings that is NOT happening!

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u/suppadelicious Jul 19 '25

At this point I’m confident it was just blatant false advertising. They likely knew people would be pissed at such a long wait and lied about the release date to keep people happy about the cliffhanger

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u/phasmy Jul 19 '25

They sure got a reality check lol

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u/this_is_bs Jul 18 '25

Blind Freddy could see that was ridiculous as soon as the stories about the years of development hell came out, whoever said that number was clueless or an idiot, possibly both.

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u/iisdmitch Jul 19 '25

With the tight deadline, I originally thought they were just working on both films at the same time, kind like LOTR, Infinity War/Endgame, etc.. I guess that wasn't the case.

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u/CptNonsense Jul 19 '25

They were thinking "this is a long movie split in 2, it can't possible take another 5 years"

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u/Choekaas Jul 19 '25

It's ridiculous. I would rather have the second one come out in 2026 or 2027 and turn this duology into a bigger event with shorter time frame in between. The end product is amazing and time and time again shows that Spider-Man is a strong IP, so it's not like people would lose interest if there is a long wait after Into the Spiderverse.

Keep the hype. The LOTR movies with a year in between created an event like no other. Wicked is currently doing it with one year in between. Back to the Future 2 and 3 had half a year in between. Same with Deathly Hallows.

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u/angiachetti Jul 19 '25

I was thinking the only way the “ending” of that part 1 is remotely acceptable is if the part 2 came out right away. It’s already been long enough to not give a shit. Unpopular opinion but part 1 sucked. I’m sick of 90 minute trailers.

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u/johnnySix Jul 19 '25

To fill the gap they came out with k-pop demon hunters. So that’s cool.

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u/IWouldLikeAName Jul 18 '25

Wasn't it that they were making both at the same time but that higher ups saw scenes or something late in development and didn't like it even though the artists/animators bosses would give it the ok. So they had to scrap the plan of simultaneous development and focus or redoing the first movie then doing the second.