'Spider-Verse' producer/writers Phil Lord and Chris Miller take us deep inside the cameos, Easter eggs, ending, and more from their multiversal Spidey smash.
With the limited number of live-action cameos, you made an aesthetic decision to be live-action against the animation, not in some kind of stylized, realistic animation. What was the thinking there?Every dimension has its own look, style, and cinematic language. In this film, there’s a Lego dimension, there’s various different art styles. We want to honor the original cinematic style or language that each world’s character is coming from.
And the same obviously goes for the inclusion of the brief glimpses of Sony’s live-action Spider-Men.Yes. Well, I mean, that whole thing is about how all the films that you’ve seen are all canon. And there’s various different worlds where Spider-Folk live and some of them are live-action, and some of them are animated, and some of them are who knows what.
How much MCU negotiation and approval and Kevin Feige intervention were involved in getting that one line about Dr. Strange approved? None. We did it. It’s been our policy to do what we think is interesting and best and let the lawyers and business affairs people figure out what’s possible, and so far we’ve been able to do the things that we think are good.Marvel has given us a lot of rope. It’s been a very fruitful collaboration.
Phil Lord and Chris Miller attends a photocall for Sony Pictures Animation’s ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider Verse’ at the Beverly Wilshire on May 22, 2023, in Beverly Hills, California.On a similar note, the brief Lego bit got one of the biggest reactions in my screening. It felt a little bit weirdly taboo, like you were almost dancing on the edges of a Marvel-DC crossover.
When you released the first Spider-Verse, the idea of the multiverse was old news to genre fans, but pretty new to the general public. Now, between the MCU,
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