Spider-Man is once more ready to save the world from all evil with his stunts and fantastic spider web. Sony announced on Thursday that Marvel lovers will be able to watch a brand new Spider-Man animated picture. Not just now. According to Variety, the hero animation will be released in the summer of 2018: on 20 July, 2018. The details regarding the upcoming Marvel hero-based animation are scarce and plot specifics will probably be held under wraps for a while.
What the Spider-Man animated movie will definitely bring us is a great directorial team. The Lego Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are the two names attached to the picture. The Spider-Man animated news was made official by Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. In his speech, he also mentioned the in progress 2017 Spider-Man picture, reassuring fans that the two projects do not pose a threat to each other. The live-action 2017 Spider-Man marvel has its own course and trajectory, which will be followed independently of the making of the animation: ‘’The film will exist independently of the projects in the live-action Spider-Man universe, all of which are continuing.’’
Here is the entire official press release (via io9):
‘’On July 20, 2018, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller the directors of The Lego Movie,Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and 21 and 22 Jump Street, are taking Spider-Man back to his graphic roots with the first-of-its-kind animated Spider-Man feature, it was announced today at CinemaCon by Tom Rothman, chairman of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group. The film will exist independently of the projects in the live-action Spider-Man universe, all of which are continuing.
Lord & Miller are masterminding the project, writing the treatment and producing the film.
As previously announced, Spider-Man will next appear in a live-action Marvel film from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, a live-action film being produced by Kevin Feige at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. The animated film from Lord & Miller, dated July 20, 2018, has Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Pascal also serving as producers.’’