Summary
- Highly anticipated Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse faces major delays, potentially 2-3 years out from release.
- The success of 2023's Across the Spider-Verse set up hopes for a stellar finale, but delays may hinder resolution.
- A crowded genre landscape with other Marvel projects might make fans wait longer for the Spider-Man trilogy closure.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse might be the most highly anticipated sequel film in the comic book movie genre, but fans might have to wait a whole lot longer than they’d like before the project makes it to theaters near them.
Despite being an animated project and existing within the same space as the highly successful Spider-Man: Home franchise from Sony and Marvel Studios, Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse was a massive hit that more than lived up to the success of 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Favorably compared to other top-tier animated features for award season, the film would set up a stellar finale titled Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, which would bring the Spider-Verse trilogy to a close by answering all the burning questions fans had and resolving the core story of the film series.
Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse Might Not Hit The Screens Before 2027
While pretty much every project saw some sort of difficulty in production due to the double strikes that ground the industry to a halt in 2023, there seemed to be a very real chance that the Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse delay might not end with the strikes. Those fears have apparently come true, and fans might be stuck playing the waiting game longer still. A recent report from The Cosmic Circus seems to confirm that the film won’t be here anytime soon, with a correspondent saying of Beyond the Spider-Verse, "They’re working hard on it, and I’m hearing a lot of cool things for it. As for a potential release, I’m hearing we’re still 2-3 years out.” This is majorly disappointing news for fans, as a potential 2027 release (barring any more unforeseen happenings) is a long time to sit with the anticipation.
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse does a lot to set up a sequel, and that solid build might have just backfired as the wait for a resolution continues to incise fans of the animated film series. There’s a lot of content in the genre from all sides, both animated and live-action. A plethora of content is set to release in 2025 from Marvel Studios, Sony, and even James Gunn’s rebooted DCU, all taking up attention and goodwill that could have potentially been poured on the threequel.
Closer to the mark, the MCU’s new animated Spider-Man series, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, is set to debut on Disney+ later this year, despite only being an inkling of an idea as recently as 2021. While the two aren’t exactly comparable, as the rigors of the Spider-Verse visual style are well known, it still highlights just how easy it is for a project like this to lose steam in the interim. The Spider-Man: Home trilogy, which serves as a recent example of a three-part film series done right, only had a 2-year gap between installments despite high production value, several cameos, and more in the mix. This fairly concise release schedule is part of what made the conclusion hit so well, and The Spider Within just doesn’t cut it as a bridge between films.
The Spider-Verse film series has been an important show of what Marvel can do with projects that arent afraid to break canon, and has been a hit with fans and critics to boot. True believers can only hope that the final installment in one of the best Marvel projects of the era doesn’t fall by the wayside due to a cavernous gap in releases.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spiderverse currently has no official release window, while prior Spiderverse films are available to stream on Disney+.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
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- June 25, 2027
- Director
- Bob Persichetti, Justin K. Thompson
- Writers
- Dave Callaham, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
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Source: The Cosmic Circus