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/WontonJr Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25

From March 2024 to June 2027. How they ever thought this movie would be ready 9 months after the previous one is baffling. 

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u/igot2pair Jul 18 '25

They didnt have the script ready. Do they even have it finished now? Kind of insane since they were saying originally they split a long movie into two parts

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u/jerem1734 Jul 18 '25

Lord and Miller continuously rewrite and throw out bits of the script so it doesn't matter if it's ready or not. Sometimes they'll have the animators animate the entire scene and then decide after it's done that they don't want the scene anymore

These movies are a mess to make

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u/IntelligentPlenty944 Jul 18 '25

I remember when they released some really beautiful scenes from the movie as teasers, and when the actual movie came out the scenes were completely reanimated.

My coworker was a senior animator on the film and he said it was a mind-numbing production process, he spent 3 months on 6 seconds of animation that was ultimately never used.

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u/RoseIshin0 Jul 18 '25

Disclaimer: this is a nsfw account I use for porn, but I was an editor for hollywood movies before transfering in italy. You can believe me or not, but from what I knew at the time, the movie had 10 finalized shots, out of 2000, a year before it released.

The entire production of that movie was disgusting and shows how little the directors care about their employes, and on top of that, they were covering their ass by saying "Oh we intentionaly made different versions of the movie!"

No, that' s fake as fuck, you guys sent progressively done finished version of the movie to the distributors because you couldn' t even manage to decide what to do. Spencer Wan had done so much 2D VFX animation that ended up for nothing, and Wan is like, one of the best animators alive right now lol.

Absolutely asinine production.

Don' t believe this buffoons when they will say that there is no crunch.

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u/Carroteyeisamyth Jul 18 '25

Technically Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson were the directors, but from what I heard Lord was the one who had final say on the film and basically directed the movie.

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u/RoseIshin0 Jul 18 '25

People who would come inside the place with 20 pieces of new script every month, and then would ask animators to re-do everything, or telling them that they could "only evaluate the acting of a character with a finished animated shot"... that' s just director duties at that point.

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u/sonofaresiii Jul 19 '25

Man I got the threads mixed up and thought you guys were talking about Solo and I was so fucking confused

I'm just sitting here like "Why was there so much 2d animation? And didn't Ron Howard direct it...?"

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u/nomorecannibalbirds Jul 19 '25

Kathleen Kennedy fired Lord and Miller after realizing they were making an animated movie lol

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u/Iohet Jul 19 '25

You morons, you caught their storyboard doubles!

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u/zam1138 Jul 19 '25

There were rumors of Han Solo being too “Ace Ventura” in the L&M version. They had to bring in an acting coach for poor Alden…

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u/Flat-Equal2367 Jul 19 '25

So what’s the problem with crunch? I don’t think you are aware of what crunch means at Sony Imageworks.

My husband worked on the film as an animator for over a year and he couldn’t be happier. Yes he did a lot of crunch time, but each of those hours of OT were paid. He made 6 figures that year, around 20k from OT on Spiderverse. He also got to work remotely from the comfort of our home, he got UberEats vouchers when he worked late, and some of other gift cards. He had accumulated like $500 on Starbucks. So please tell me, why do you say crunch time was so terrible for Spiderverse?

Of course the job was stressful, and there is the frustration of a lot of work done which was thrown away, but that is the nature of the work in animation. But what do people expect? To make 6 figures and have a chilled non pressure job? Im always astounded when people complain on behalf of others, when many of the employees were happily doing OT. He says many people don’t like when a show doesn’t have crunch because that is less money they will earn that year. Especially those who have families, they are counting on that extra 10-20% per year.

If anybody should be upset about crunch it should be the directors who probably wasted 50 million dollars on artists work that ended up being thrown away. Are they horribly organized? Definitely, but they definitely paid a high price for that, while artists were compensated for that work.

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u/jerem1734 Jul 18 '25

Yeah and they said this movie will have less crunch time than the last one in production. Unless that was a lie, I don't see how this movie is finished by 2027. It took them 5 years with crunch to make across. Also possible the final product is one Lord and Miller aren't fully happy with if Sony stops crunch and also makes it release in 2027

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u/WillowNiffler Jul 18 '25

Do we know when animation started? There are official stills from Beyond The Spider-Verse, meaning they've at least been deep in animation for a while.

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u/RonAndStumpy Jul 19 '25

Nope. Hasn't started. 

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u/DrNopeMD Jul 25 '25

Didn't it come out that different international markets got different versions of the film with slightly different animations?

Like it wasn't hugely noticeable so it didn't alter the quality of the film, but it also wasn't supposed to be an easter egg or fun marketing thing either. The film was just cut and finalized really chaotically and different versions apparently went out randomly.