“Wait...so how many of us are there?”
December 15, 2017 11:20 AM   Subscribe

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse [YouTube][Trailer] “Into the Spider Verse will be in theaters Christmas 2018, and will star Miles Morales in what the promo material is calling a “fresh vision of a different Spider-Man universe.” The elegant visual design of the trailer, with its realistic CGI environments and wiry, acrobatic Miles Morales, certainly feels fresh. The trailer doesn’t contain much except for a showcase of Miles being an excellent young Spider-Man, though it continues Black Panther’s fine tradition of soundtracking Marvel trailers with Vince Staples. The film will star Shameik Moore as the voice of Miles Morales, with Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) voicing his father, Jefferson Davis, and actor Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta) voicing Miles’s uncle, Aaron Davis, aka The Prowler.” [via: io9]
posted by Fizz (30 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
Seems like a better title for this movie would have been Spider-Men.
posted by guiseroom at 11:22 AM on December 15, 2017 [1 favorite]


How many Spiders-Man are there now?
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:27 AM on December 15, 2017 [6 favorites]


Couldn't they at least have gotten the subways right?

Is that an L train or a Q train? They don't run on the same line. Those trains don't have the giant colored bullets. No trains have a damn purple light up sign, let alone one placed to the left of the door. AND THERE IS NO 31ST STREET STOP ANYWHERE.
posted by SansPoint at 11:44 AM on December 15, 2017 [2 favorites]


Maybe there is in Spider-York.
posted by Rock Steady at 11:48 AM on December 15, 2017 [12 favorites]


Isn't this an alternate universe? They can have whatever trains they want.

(And I think that means its mandatory to have airships)
posted by thefoxgod at 11:48 AM on December 15, 2017 [11 favorites]


Is that an L train or a Q train? They don't run on the same line. Those trains don't have the giant colored bullets. No trains have a damn purple light up sign, let alone one placed to the left of the door. AND THERE IS NO 31ST STREET STOP ANYWHERE.

There's one on the corner of Avenue Q
posted by ocschwar at 11:52 AM on December 15, 2017 [4 favorites]


Black spidermen? Haters gonna hate. Haters gonna hate big. It is 2017, after all.
posted by ocschwar at 11:54 AM on December 15, 2017


Spider-York has gotten so much more vibrant and affordable since the seventies. Housing is cheap and plentiful, there are bookstores everywhere, and a pint of Spider-IPA costs around $3.
posted by Iridic at 11:54 AM on December 15, 2017 [11 favorites]


Spider-Brooklyn is full of strip malls and retirement homes. The Olive Garden flagship is there.
posted by Rock Steady at 11:58 AM on December 15, 2017 [1 favorite]


Sorry, Spider Garden.
posted by Rock Steady at 11:58 AM on December 15, 2017 [7 favorites]


"How many Spiders-Man are there now?"

Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Cindy Moon, Gwen Stacy and many more

posted by subtle_squid at 12:01 PM on December 15, 2017 [2 favorites]


"How many Spiders-Man are there now?"

Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Cindy Moon, Gwen Stacy and many more


A shadow of jaguars, a tower of giraffes, a parade of elephants etc.

Still angry that we do not call a plural of spides a nope.
posted by Fizz at 12:04 PM on December 15, 2017 [1 favorite]


A single spider can often be a nope.
posted by Cookiebastard at 12:10 PM on December 15, 2017 [2 favorites]


I demand an appearance of Peter Porker: The Amazing Spider-Ham or I will personally riot.
posted by Strange Interlude at 12:10 PM on December 15, 2017 [11 favorites]


Couldn't they at least have gotten the subways right?

Is that an L train or a Q train? They don't run on the same line. Those trains don't have the giant colored bullets. No trains have a damn purple light up sign, let alone one placed to the left of the door. AND THERE IS NO 31ST STREET STOP ANYWHERE.


It's set in an alternate world where the MTA is grossly incompetent and can't manage the subways correctly. Hard to imagine, I know.
posted by Sangermaine at 12:13 PM on December 15, 2017 [2 favorites]


The animation is super-interesting. It's CG, but with some witchcraft that makes the characters look like stop-motion figures. Artificially low frame rates, maybe a little bit of jitter? But it's not there 100% of the time.

I'll be very interested to read about the thoughts behind this style. Are there any creator interviews or making-ofs?
posted by Lorc at 12:20 PM on December 15, 2017 [1 favorite]


I dig the animation style.
posted by hoodrich at 12:21 PM on December 15, 2017


Oh wow - and I just realised that the lighting is Ben-Day dots. So cool!
posted by Lorc at 12:23 PM on December 15, 2017 [1 favorite]


Wait, Aaron Davis is played by Atlanta co-star Brian Tyree Henry in this? Funny, his fellow Atlanta co-star Donald Glover plays Aaron Davis in Spider-Man: Homecoming. That seems to be more than coincidence.

Also does this mean we are not going to get a live action Miles Morales?
posted by Ashwagandha at 12:34 PM on December 15, 2017 [1 favorite]


“Wait...so how many of us are there?” has me thinking that it's not just Miles in this movie - but Cindy and Gwen and if they go full Spider-Verse Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham and Supaidaman could even show up.

Which would be buck-wild, but would also detract from the power of telling a story about Miles.
posted by thecjm at 12:35 PM on December 15, 2017


The Spider Verse is OK, but they should have worked on the Spider Chorus a little more before release. The Spider Bridge is, frankly, pretty weak.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:37 PM on December 15, 2017 [5 favorites]


It looks like a Gorillaz video.
posted by Catblack at 12:44 PM on December 15, 2017 [2 favorites]


The Spider Bridge would be a challenge from a fantasy novel. You have to cross the Spider Bridge with out being eaten to reach the land of ... blah. Not my genre, but you get the idea.
posted by Grangousier at 12:44 PM on December 15, 2017 [1 favorite]


Spider-Pig or GTFO
posted by disconnect at 12:50 PM on December 15, 2017 [4 favorites]


Man, I was gonna go there, disconnect.
posted by evilDoug at 2:11 PM on December 15, 2017


What about Spider-man Too: 2 Many Spider-men?
posted by DoctorFedora at 2:30 PM on December 15, 2017 [2 favorites]


I really, really like the flashes of hand-drawn animation cells overlaid over the CGI as a kind of jarring way of expressing spider sense, if that's what's going on. There are a lot of really cool stylistic choices going on. A little Gorillaz, as mentioned above.

I never liked the "Mega Crossover" story as much as I liked Miles' and Gwen's stories in particular. It's more spectacle than character, and I found the callbacks to it in the independent titles kind of obtrusive. But this looks really fun.
posted by Phobos the Space Potato at 3:23 PM on December 15, 2017 [3 favorites]


Oooo! Spider Mans!
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 2:43 PM on December 17, 2017


This thread reminded me of the better-than-average Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.
posted by DrAstroZoom at 7:47 AM on December 18, 2017


the train is clearly not meant to be taken literally. like a big theme of this movie is the duality of good and evil in a single family. so of course they would represent that by a train which belongs to both the worst (L) and best (Q) lines.
posted by vogon_poet at 4:18 PM on December 19, 2017 [1 favorite]


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