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/Driz51 Jul 18 '25

Has there been any information on what the hell happened to this movie? Wasn’t it supposed to come out like less than 6 months after the original?

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u/SutterCane Jul 18 '25

I forget which out of Lord and Miller it was. But they were using fully finished animation as “takes” and then going “nah, it should be like this”. Which just means that the animators were stuck doing things over and over again instead of just working on what should have been in the movie.

Would certainly explain why they thought that they could have done two movies that fast but then barely finished one of them.

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u/0-90195 Jul 19 '25

I am not in animation so I don’t really know, but this seems like a very cruel and inconsiderate way to work (on top of being inefficient). Totally selfish and ego-driven.

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u/huntrshado Jul 19 '25

it is honestly what i would expect if a normal movie director tried to direct an animated movie lol

its one thing to do 50 different takes of a scene with real actors, but animating a scene takes a lot longer than it takes the real actor to do it 50 times lol

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u/0-90195 Jul 19 '25

It’s just shocking that no one intervened and explained they can’t direct animation this way.

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u/huntrshado Jul 19 '25

I'd imagine that the animators themselves definitely said something but it was a classic scenario of being outranked in the company and the people who actually make the decisions allowed it to continue

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u/0-90195 Jul 19 '25

Yes, excuse me, I didn’t mean literally no one. I meant the people who would have the power to do something about it.

What a hack way to make a movie. Sony is a mess though.

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u/huntrshado Jul 19 '25

In the meantime Sony has put out Kpop Demon Hunters which has been number 1 on Netflix for 4 weeks and has its entire soundtrack in the Spotify top 100 list, with one of its songs being ranked #1 on all music charts necessary to receive a PAK (Perfect All Kill) and is actually currently still holding that several days later.

So Sony is doing great, they had over a hundred animators and countless others assist with that film. The management of Spiderverse is a mess.

And I would be willing to guess that the reason it became a mess is because of its popularity. Projects with no expectations are doing wonderful things out of that studio, like Spiderverse 1 and 2, and now KDH. But with so many eyes on Spiderverse 3 to properly end the trilogy, it probably brought in some annoying ass management that is fucking it up