‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Sequel Confirmed For April 2022

If you somehow thought that Sony Pictures would let their Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning animated Spider-Man film go quietly into that good night, think again. The company tweeted out an announcement officially confirming that the highly anticipated sequel to “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse” will swing into theaters on April 8, 2022.

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The date was revealed on a brief Twitter clip featuring the Miles Morales’ graffitied Spider-Man logo in numerous art styles with the year “2022” flashing in the middle of it.

A follow-up to this critically-acclaimed and award-winning animated film was not only to be expected, but was announced a year ago even before the film’s premiere. However, the news of trouble with Sony and Disney’s live-action Spider-Man movie earlier this year made a sequel starring Miles Morales all the more important to the future of Sony’s arachnid franchise. In addition to a sequel starring Miles and all the Spider-people, it was previously announced that a spinoff focusing on Spider-Gwen and other female Spider-characters was also in the works. While we don’t know exactly which film will premiere in 2022, it is likely that this project will focus on Miles.

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Of course, the big question is which Spider-characters will join the sequel. The original introduced us to a middle-aged Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy as Spider-Gwen, a literal pig going by the name Spider-Ham, Asian-American Peni Parker and of course Nicolas Cage as the black-and-white Spider Noir. Here’s hoping the sequel will give us Spider-Man from the Japanese TV show (who owns a giant robot) or Spiders-Man (a literal pile of spiders that believe they’re a human).

Deadline reports that “Into the Spider-Verse” producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller will return to produce the sequel, while Variety states that Joaquin Dos Santos (Voltron: Legendary Defender, Avatar: The Last Airbender) is set to direct the script by Dave Callaham (Wonder Woman 1984, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings).