We spoke with the SpiderMan: AcrossTheSpiderVerse directors on the movie's insane process, animation, Easter Eggs, BeyondTheSpiderVerse, and more!
Though Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is swinging into theaters on June 2, the directing trio still have their work cut out for them. Following the massive success of the first Oscar-winning film, Into the Spider-Verse, Kemp Powers, Justin K.
JOAQUIM DOS SANTOS: We are in the process of being so thankful that we survived making this one, that's where we're at.KEMP POWERS: Yeah, that's really the best answer, I think, for that. I mean, obviously, when we conceptualized it, we broke the story for both of these films, but obviously, this came down to the wire, and I think the immediate priority is to get a little bit of a break for folks.
POWERS: Well no, a good point is, Into the Spider-Verse was almost two hours long, which at a time when people were like, “Animated films are supposed to be 80, 85, 88 minutes,” they came out with the first one and it was almost two hours, and no one really noticed. So I think that kind of established the template that you take the time you need to take to tell the story that you need to tell.
We're on the same page. The character moments are what everyone loves about these movies. It's not the way Spider-Man fights in a scene, it's the characters.
POWERS: With my background, it's been a combination of things. I love working with the actors, so actually directing the vocal performances was something that I really took a lot of joy in, and spending a lot of time in edit and cutting it all together. I mean, the way it worked functionally was, in the beginning, it was all of us doing everything. So every single meeting, we were, all three of us, kind of coming to a quorum in the meeting.
POWERS: No. Some of it is, we have some vocal stuff done for the second film, but no, not all of it's done for both movies. They're all gonna be coming back [laughs]. When I was watching this movie, I wanted to push pause about 1000 times, and I will do that when it's eventually on home video, but have any of you actually pushed pause on every frame? Because I would imagine some of the animators are going to sneak through some things, maybe?
Yeah, it was more like an animator, because you're pushing the technology hard to deliver this film.
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