
“‘It gets really crazy here - but we’re not connected to the story.’” “It was like, ‘Why is this just a wet blanket right now?’” Dos Santos recalls. But as the directors watched the semi-finished sequence unfold with producers and screenwriters Christopher Miller and Phil Lord (who wrote the script with David Callaham), something wasn’t quite working.

“We had worked on that sequence for a while, and we finally got it to a place where logically and from a staging perspective, it was doing all the things,” says Joaquim Dos Santos, who directed “Across the Spider-Verse” along with Kemp Powers and Justin K. The sequence launches them all through the vertiginously vertical metropolis, as they frantically try to stop the film’s villain, the Spot (Jason Schwartzman), from using Mumbattan’s supercollider to increase his dimension-hopping abilities. Within minutes, Miles and his BFF from 2018’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), encounter that world’s Spider-Man, Pavitr Prabhakar (Karan Soni), an Indian teenager who received his powers not via spider bite, but through magic. Mumbattan, a dazzling amalgamation of New York City and Mumbai.

the Spider-Man of Earth-1610 - enters a different dimension: Earth-50101, a.k.a. For the first time in his life, the animated film’s hero - Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), a.k.a.

SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments and surprises throughout “ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” now playing in theaters.įor months, the directors of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” had been working exhaustively on a critical sequence that launches the movie’s second act.
