Just when comic book fans couldn’t get enough of record-breaking adaptations of their favourite superheroes, a recent report from The Guardian has announced that a new animated Spider-Man movie will be coming out in 2018.
The news was made public by Sony Pictures who are interested in rebooting the Marvel web-slinger , but as an animation instead of a live-action movie. Sony Pictures chairman Tom Roth made the announcement himself at last week’s CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas. According to Roth, the new movie will co-exist in the same Spider-Man live-action universe.
[We] are taking Spider-Man back to his graphic roots with the first-of-its-kind animated Spider-Man feature…The film will exist independently of the projects in the live-action Spider-Man universe, all of which are continuing.
A report from /FILM says the new Spider-Man flick will be handed over to directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller , who worked on the popular Lego Movie released last year, as well as 21 Jump Street . While Lord and Miller are not attached to direct the animated movie, they will be writing the treatment and producing the film.
Alongside an animated adaptation, a new live-action Spider-Man flick is also in the works, according to the official press release.
Spider-Man will next appear in a live-action Marvel film from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, a live-action film being produced by Kevin Feige at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. The animated film from Lord & Miller, dated July 20, 2018, has Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Pascal also serving as producers.
Despite The Amazing Spider-Man 2 being the lowest grossing adaptation in the film’s history (receiving a meta-score of 53/100), Spider-Man is the biggest Sony Pictures franchise of all time, grossing billions worldwide in the space of five movies.
It was also announced earlier this year that a deal had been signed by Sony Pictures to allow Spider-Man to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His first appearance in a Marvel adaptation will be in Captain America: Civil War , which will be released on May 6, 2016.
Spider-Man is one of the world’s most popular superhero characters, making his first appearance for Marvel Comics in 1962. The web-slinger is no stranger to animation either, having starred in his first cartoon series between 1967 and 1970. The new animated Spider-Man movie being released by Sony Pictures is bound to be a hit with old and new fans alike.
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