Netflix Makes Halloween All Spiders' Eve With Arrival Of 'Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse'

Or is it "O'Haraween"?

It’s been nearly three years since Netflix has housed a Miles Morales Spider-Man movie. Now, just under 4 months after the release of the long-awaited sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, it’s heading to Netflix to make the Spot’s holes all the scarier.

The highest-grossing film in Sony Pictures Animation hits the streamer in the United States on Halloween, October 31. It was the first film from the studio to be released theatrically since The Angry Birds 2 due to the pandemic, so having four contestants handled before grossing $690 million worldwide certainly helped. The film comes to the streamer as it has been where the studio’s output has been licensed for its pay-1 window since 2014. The series’s first film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse spent its 18 months in said window from June 2019 to Christmas Day 2020 following its December 2018 theatrical release. Sony Pictures moved its (live action output) Pay-1 rights from Starz to Netflix starting with its 2022 films and both run through 2026.

In the film, Spider-Man Miles Morales reunites with Gwen Stacy, who is now a member of a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the very existence of the multiverse as he’s catapulted through it. Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders, clashing on philosophies as they have to deal with The Spot as he turns into a major threat. He must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse stars Shameik Moore as Miles Morales/Spider-Man, Hailee Steinfeld as Spider-Woman Gwen Stacy, Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker Spider-Man, Oscar Isaac as Spider-Man 2099 Miguel O’Hara, Issa Rae as Spider-Woman Jessica Drew, Daniel Kaluuya as Spider-Punk Hobie Brown, and Karan Soni as Spider-Man India Pavitr Prabhakar. includes Brian Tyree Henry and Luna Lauren Velez as Miles’s parents Jefferson and Rio, Shea Whigham as Gwen’s father Capt. George Stacy, Jason Schwartzman as The Spot, along with Greta Lee, Rachel Dratch, Jorma Taccone and a good handful new and reprising actors for the multiverse’s many other Spider-People. The film’s directors are Justin K. Thompson, Joaquim Dos Santos, and Kemp Powers. The first film’s writer-producer Phil Lord and producer Christopher Miller wrote the film with David Callaham.

The series’s third film, subtitled Beyond the Spider-Verse, currently does not have a scheduled release date while it awaits the striking SAG-AFTRA member actors getting their fair deal so they can return to record.

Source: Deadline