Sony Announces Spider-Man Animated Movie
Just when you thought the appearances of Spider-Man couldn’t get any bigger…another Spider-Man movie gets announced. But this one is in animated form!
The reveal came at CinemaCon 2015, and was brought to story by ComicBook.com, where Sony Pictures Chairman Tom Rothman announced the film. What he also announced though was who was heading it up. Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
Those names should be very familiar to you by now. As those two made the amazing Lego Movie, as well as directing 21 Jump Street, and its sequel 22 Jump Street. They are also attached to DC Comics in that they’re writing the script for the upcoming Flash movie. Needless to say, these two are qualified for the job.
The question now becomes, “what will the movie be about?”, and, “will it be connected to the MCU, or other Spider-Man projects?”. While the first one is without answer for now, the latter can be elaborated upon at least a little. The Spider-Man animated movie will be an independent film, meaning it won’t connect to the live-action projects (both with Marvel and with Sony), all of which were reiterated to be in the works right now.
However, we do a potential release date for the animated film, June 22, 2018.