Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse swung into CinemaCon on Monday with first-look footage that found Miles Morales tied up, threatened, confused and angry as Sony Pictures Animation previewed the next chapter of its Oscar-winning trilogy. The film is set for release on June 18, 2027.
The footage pushes Miles back into the darkest corners of the Spider-Verse after the cliffhanger ending of 2023's Across the Spider-Verse, where he discovered a parallel version of himself had become the villainous Prowler in an Earth without Spider-Man and with a lawless New York City. In the new film, he is hunted by Miguel O'Hara's Spider Society and betrayed by his friends, with his family fractured and endangered by the choices that made him a hero.
That gives the third Spider-Verse film a bigger emotional charge than a simple rescue mission. Miles must travel across the wildest reaches of time and space to fight for and reunite everything he holds most dear, while his uncle and the evil version of himself try to stop him. Hailee Steinfeld returns as the voice of Gwen Stacy, and Brian Tyree Henry voices Miles's dad Jeffrey David, a role he said would be “even more epic than the last … get your hankies ready.”
The franchise has already proved it can deliver. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won the Animated Feature Oscar in 2018, Across the Spider-Verse earned an Oscar nomination, and the two films have grossed $1.08 billion together. Directed by Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson from a script by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Callaham based on Marvel Comics, the new installment also reunites producers Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal, Avi Arad and Jinko Gotoh, with Aditya Sood and Christina Steinberg as executive producers.
Lord said the animation team was built to keep pushing the medium forward, calling it “The Sony Animation team is all about pushing boundaries – that is their super power.” That is the promise behind Beyond the Spider-Verse: not just another sequel, but the finish line for a trilogy that has already turned Miles Morales into one of the most durable heroes in modern animation.
