![]() ![]() And we wanted to blow the doors open on that.”Īlso Read | Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse swings to massive $120.5 million openingĪcross the Spider-Verse certainly blasted expectations on opening weekend. “For too long, the studios were mandating that these films all look the same. “It was an opportunity to show the limitless possibilities of animation in a studio film,” says Miller. In Across the Spider-Verse - an eyeball-delighting, electrically animated whirligig of color and sound - Lord and Miller set out not just to surpass the high bar of their 2018 original but upend big-studio animation and the more-of-the-same expectations of sequel-making. It took nearly five years, a crew of a thousand and a cavalcade of Spider-People, but the second chapter of Miller and Lord’s Spider-Verse series has arrived. “The whole goal of this trilogy was to let everybody feel like it could be me, and show as many different types of people - and animals - being Spider-Man as possible.” “With that mask that covers an entire body and face, you can imagine yourself in that suit,” says Miller. He was also, thanks to a mosh pit of multiverses, just about anyone, or anything, you could think of. Spider-Man, for the first time, was a biracial kid from Brooklyn. One of their crowning achievements, the Oscar-winning Into the Spider-Verse, took a hatchet to superhero movie conventions. They’ve turned seemingly terrible ideas - a Lego movie, a 21 Jump Street movie - into original works of antic, innovative comedy. In the movies of Lord and Miller, a filmmaking duo since they met in college at Dartmouth, down is frequently up, and up is often down. Also read | Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse movie review: A restless, firing-on-all-pistons rollercoaster ride ![]()
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