Deadline is reporting that “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” will not be coming out in 2025. The outlet’s Sony source wants us not to worry, and know that the studio is “taking a lot of tender loving care with the film.”
This is not very surprising news as, in September, a report had claimed Sony having scrapped most of ‘Beyond the Spider-Verse’ for “creative reasons,” and, given the detailed animation that required, the movie was now unlikely to release before 2027.
A few months later, A report insinuated that Sony had actually demanded for the ENTIRE ‘Beyond’ script to be rewritten. This meant that reels of animated footage had to be thrown out. The studio was also said to be undecided on the film's ending.
Last week, while speaking to Screen Rant, ‘Spider-Verse voice actor Jharrel Jerome stated that he actually hadn’t done any work yet on ‘Beyond the Spider-Verse.’ As far as any actual information on the film, he said that he was just as in the dark as fans.
The visionary, and groundbreaking, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” was a commercial and critical success back in the summer of 2023. The sequel ‘Beyond the Spider-Verse’ initially had a release date of March 2024.
Might all of these delays, not to mention script and footage scrappings, have to do with creative duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s recent clash with Sony over, among other things, “Spider-Noir”? The duo had signed a five-year, nine-figure deal with the studio in 2019, with the idea being that they'd oversee a slate of Spider-Man projects. Sony ended up not renewing their contract because of this clash.
Not helping the case, last year Vulture reported about Lord and Miller’s controversial managerial style while overseeing “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”? Crew members — ranging from artists to production executives who had worked anywhere from five to a dozen years in the animation business — described the process of making the $150M film as “uniquely arduous, involving a relentless kind of revisionism” and “death by a thousand paper cuts.”
Lord and Miller recently wrapped production on “Project Hail Mary,” starring Ryan Gosling, which is set to be their first directorial effort since exiting “Solo: A Star War Story’ in 2018.