Sony’s Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse gets an official spot on Sony’s schedule three years after the Marvel movie’s original release date. Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse have become some of the most popular movies in Marvel and Sony’s movie history, and they’ve made Miles Morales a household name as cherished as Peter Parker himself. Without a doubt, 2027’s Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the final installment in the Spider-Verse trilogy, is gearing up to be the most successful in its franchise.
In 2023, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse‘s cliffhanger ending left many questions open-ended. Miles Morales is captured, Spot is still on the loose, and Gwen’s team of rebellious Spider-People are bound to clash with Miguel O’Hara. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse are two parts of a single story, split in order to give each installment enough time to dive into each character’s story. Unfortunately for fans, the wait for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse extended a little longer than initially expected. During Sony’s CinemaCon 2025 panel, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse‘s release date was confirmed to be June 4, 2027 — three years after its original release date.
Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse Was Originally Set To Release In 2024
Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse’s 2024 Release Date Seemed Unfeasible
Sony announced a sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 2019, confirmed that the sequel would be divided into Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse in 2021, and both movies were officially titled in 2022. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse was originally slated for a March 2024 release date — a little over a year after Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse‘s May 2023 release. Now, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is scheduled to release three years and three months after its original release date.
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Scheduling a sequel one year after its predecessor is virtually unheard of. While Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse were initially devised as a single movie and later split into two, each sequel became its own full-length movie with its own script shortly after. Naturally, both sequels require a full movie’s worth of development, pre-production, production, and distribution. What’s more, each Spider-Verse movie requires a long and intense period of production due to the high quality of its animation. One year between the second and first installments entailed impossible deadlines and inevitable delays.
Why Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse Was Pulled From Sony’s 2024 Slate
Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse’s 2024 Slate Was Short-Lived
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse needed to be delayed long past its original March 2024 release date due to the massive amount of work needed to complete the project. However, other obstacles got in the way of Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse‘s production. Similar to Deadpool & Wolverine, Captain America: Brave New World, Venom: The Last Dance, and Blade, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse‘s development was paused amidst the 2023 SAG-AFTRA Strikes. Sony opened a slot for an untitled Marvel movie in 2025 but soon removed it from its schedule.
Whether Sony’s temporary 2025 slot was planned for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the MCU’s Spider-Man 4, or a now-canceled installment in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is still unknown.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse remained without any major release date updates for over a year. In December 2024, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse‘s directors, writers, and producers were officially confirmed. Without a specific release date announced, a 2025 release seemed very unlikely, and a 2026 release seemed possible but still improbable. Three months later, during Sony’s CinemaCon 2025 panel, the studio has confirmed what seemed to be the most likely scenario for the past year or two: a 2027 release date.
Why Each Spider-Verse Movie Takes A Long Time To Make
Sony’s Spider-Verse Movies Are Some Of The Most Complex Animated Films Ever Made
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was released four and a half years after Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse will be released four years after Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. A four-to-five wait period between installments is a suitable one for movies the size of the Spider-Verse films. Unlike most animated projects, the Spider-Verse movies employ dozens of animation styles simultaneously — each of them requiring intricate attention to detail and their own tailor-made approach to help them coexist with the others.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had the largest animation crew in movie history, with more than a thousand animators working on the movie’s various animation styles and larger-than-life action scenes. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is aiming to raise the bar even further, meaning that it may have an even bigger crew and even more ambitious sequences than Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. One advantage the Spider-Verse movies have over other Marvel productions is that they’re limited to a trilogy. Hence, all focus will be on delivering the highest-quality visuals, audio, and script possible in only three installments.
