Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Marvel Entertainment, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.

It is the first animated film in the Spider-Man franchise and the first film in the Spider-Verse franchise, which is set in a shared multiverse of alternate universes called the “Spider-Verse”.

Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman from a screenplay by Phil Lord and Rothman, it stars Shameik Moore as Morales, alongside the voices of Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Vélez, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, and Liev Schreiber.

The film’s story follows Miles as he becomes the new Spider-Man and joins other Spider-People from various parallel universes who team up to save New York City from the Kingpin.

Plans for an animated Spider-Man film by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were leaked in 2014 and announced in April 2015. Persichetti, Ramsey and Rothman joined over the next two years, with Moore and Schreiber cast in April 2017.

Lord and Miller wanted the film to have a unique style, combining computer animation with time-honored hand-drawn comic techniques inspired by the work of Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli.

The film required the largest crew of animators used by Sony Pictures Animation on a feature film.

The film premiered at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles on December 1, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 14. The film grossed $384.

3 million worldwide against a $90 million budget and received critical acclaim. The film won Best Animated Feature at the 91st Academy Awards—being the first non-Disney/Pixar film to win the award since Rango (2011).

Filmmakers and animation peers have praised its aesthetics and acknowledged its influence on subsequent animated productions. It has since been regarded as one of the best animated films of the 21st century.

A sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, was released in 2023 to similar critical and greater commercial success.

A third film, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, and a spin-off film focused on female Spider-related characters are in development.

Miles’ uncle Aaron Davis takes him to an abandoned subway station to paint graffiti to cheer him up. There, Miles is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains abilities similar to Spider-Man.

Returning to the station, he discovers a collider built by Kingpin, who hopes to access parallel universes to abduct alternate versions of his late wife and son.

Spider-Man attempts to disable the collider while fighting Kingpin’s enforcers, the Green Goblin and Prowler.

Green Goblin shoves Spider-Man into the collider, causing an explosion that kills the former and wounds the latter, who then gives Miles a USB flash drive designed to disable the collider, warning that the machine could destroy the city if reactivated.

After watching in horror as Kingpin murders Spider-Man, Miles flees. As the city mourns Spider-Man’s death, Miles tries to honor his legacy and become the new Spider-Man but inadvertently damages the drive. At Spider-Man’s grave, he meets Peter B.

Parker, an older and worn-down version of Spider-Man from another dimension. The duo infiltrate Kingpin’s research facility to steal data for a new flash drive.

They are confronted by head scientist Olivia Octavius, who discovers that Peter will die from cellular decay if he remains in their dimension. Miles and Peter are then saved by Gwen Stacy, a Spider-Woman from another dimension.

They visit Spider-Man’s aunt, May Parker; she is sheltering more Spider-People who slipped into Miles’ universe from other dimensions due to the collider’s influence—Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker, and Spider-Ham—who are also deteriorating.

Miles offers to help the others return home but they tell him he lacks experience. Distraught, Miles retreats to Aaron’s home, where he discovers his uncle is the Prowler.

He flees to May’s house, where the new drive is completed by Peni; he is followed by Kingpin, Aaron, Octavius, Scorpion, and Tombstone. In the ensuing brawl, he reveals his identity to Aaron.

Unwilling to kill his own nephew, Aaron attempts to spare Miles, but is fatally shot by Kingpin in retaliation and dies in Miles’ arms. Miles flees just as Jefferson arrives on the scene; he mistakes the new Spider-Man as his brother’s murderer.

The heroes regroup with a devastated Miles. Unwilling to let Miles get killed, Peter restrains Miles with his webs for his safety and chooses to sacrifice himself by staying behind and deactivating the collider.

Jefferson arrives outside Miles’ door and apologizes for his mistakes and expresses his faith in Miles, inspiring him. Miles manages to control his powers, escapes his restraints, and creates his own Spider-Man suit.

He joins the other Spider-People in defeating Kingpin’s enforcers, and uses the new drive to send them home. Kingpin fights Miles, attracting the attention of Jefferson.

Realizing that Spider-Man is not the menace he saw him as, he encourages Miles, who throws Kingpin at the collider’s kill switch, destroying it.

The city is saved, Kingpin and his henchmen are arrested and Jefferson receives evidence of Kingpin’s murders of Spider-Man and Aaron. Miles embraces the responsibilities of his new life.

Later, Gwen finds a way to contact Miles from her own dimension. Elsewhere, Miguel O’Hara, also known as Spider-Man 2099, travels to Earth-67 and argues with its Spider-Man.