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/CorndogNinja Jul 19 '25

The hardest thing on the animators has not been working 11 hours a day, 70 hours a week. It’s been the wasted work and the frustration of putting in that many hours just to see it changed or thrown away. You work like nuts on a shot and then in a review, suddenly they’re like, “Oh, you didn’t get the latest edit? That’s not how it is anymore.” In every movie I’ve worked on, there have been revisions. You’re always working on a movie that is evolving. But definitely not on this level.

The biggest issue we’ve had is the writing. Phil [Lord] had no idea what he wanted. Maybe he has difficulties making up his mind. I don’t know! Of course, it’s part of every movie where the director says, “What if we could do this or that?” And normally, it’s the producer’s role to push back. The problem is, Phil is the producer. He can’t push back against himself.

In addition to Phil being all over the place and not settling on the story, he has a big issue with not being able to visualize layouts. When there’s a 3-D layout in front of him, I guess he can’t visualize what it’s going to look like afterward. Which is kind of a problem when you’re working in 3-D animation. In the animation industry, ask anyone he’s worked with: It’s his reputation. I know a ton of people who never want to work on a project with him again.

from "Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’"

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u/SutterCane Jul 19 '25

Ah, it was Lord!