Beyond the Spider-Verse Has Found Some Familiar Directors

We’ve been proceeding astir the agelong roadworthy to the 3rd animated Miles Morales movie, Beyond the Spider-Verse, for a likewise agelong clip now—hell, it was meant to beryllium retired earlier this year. But present we cognize that it’s going to instrumentality adjacent longer to plaything backmost into its multiversal web, we astatine slightest cognize who’s going to beryllium starring the complaint down the scenes.

Today Sony officially confirmed that Beyond volition beryllium helmed by Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson, 2 originative stalwarts who’ve been moving connected the Spider-Verse films since the beginning. Persichetti co-directed Into the Spider-Verse with Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, portion Thompson served arsenic the accumulation decorator connected the archetypal film, shaping its now-iconic ocular style, stepping up to co-direct Across with Joaquim Dos Santos and Kemp Powers.

“Bob and Justin’s fingerprints are woven into the DNA of these films, and their passionateness for Miles’ travel shines done successful each framework of his past adventure,” producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller said successful a connection (via Deadline). “There is thing much rewarding than collaborating with originative partners with bold imaginativeness and superb execution similar Bob and Justin. We are thrilled to enactment with them erstwhile again to make a beauteous and satisfying decision to this story.”

It’s a communicative that has been a long clip coming. First announced successful 2021 alongside the sequel’s debut trailer—and primitively arsenic the Part 2 to its Part 1—after reports emerged astir terrible moving conditions connected Across, arsenic good arsenic further reports alleging a drawn retired restructuring of enactment connected Beyond truthful acold earlier this year, it present seems improbable that we’ll spot the movie plaything into theaters for a fewer much years. Fingers crossed Persichetti and Thompson volition marque it worthy the wait.

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