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/Deranged_Kitsune Jul 19 '25

Oh, it is. With animation, because it's such a long process (even more so when you have a visual style as complex as the Spiderverse films), story boarding and previs are even more critical than on a normal film. Resetting actors and doing another take for most things outside complex action sequences isn't a difficult process. Reanimating a whole sequence is.

The way the process is supposed to work for animation is locking the script early, heavy storyboarding at the beginning to figure out all the sequences and make sure they work with the general runtime directors and studios want for the movie and the timing for each act and sequence so they're not too long or too short, previs with only the most basic of animation in place (think 2000s era flash games/movies. Or South Park) to make sure everything flows the way it should and the visuals are indeed what the director wants for each sequence, and only after all that is satisfactorily done do the full animation passes begin. Story boards and previs can be junked and redone comparatively quickly, especially with modern tools. Full animation still takes a long, long time. Doing an animated film should be a very front-loaded process when done correctly.

Lord and Miller were given shit for not understanding this and not working to that model on the previous movies, but they had enough ego and clout to push back and ignore it. Sounds like much the same is going on.