The Creators Of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Share Revealing Facts
This afternoon / evening (depending on your time zone), the creators and directors behind Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse held a “Quarantine Watch Party” live on Twitter. Followers were instructed to start the movie at a specific time and follow a specific hashtag for insightful comments. Why did we wait until after the event was over to tell you about this? So we could bring you all the interesting facts that were revealed by the staff during the watch. Like these…. “One rule was no dialogue boxes or anything too comic book-y until after Miles is bitten.” –Christopher Miller “The teacher [at the beginning] is based on my cousin, who is very funny and inspiring science teacher.” –Phil Lord “We really wanted to get the sense of a whole city mourning Spiderman to raise the stakes for Miles…could he rise up?” –Peter Ramsey, director “References to the number 42 throughout #SpiderVerse are in honor of Jackie Robinson, the first African American Major League Baseball player, whose jersey number was 42.” –the
