User blog:ARTaylor/Spider-Man Movie Coming

It looks like we haven't seen the last of theatrically released animated features from Marvel. And it's not just the rumored Big Hero 6 sequel.

Fresh out of CinemaCon, news broke that Sony officially will be making the Spider-Man animated feature that was rumored about last December. The film will be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller who are known for their work on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (featuring previous Spider-Man actor Neil Patrick Harris), 21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie, and 22 Jump Street.

The film is currently slated for a release on July 20th, 2018.

Here is the official press release:

''On July 20, 2018, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller the directors of The Lego Movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and 21 and 22 Jump Street, are taking Spider-Man back to his graphic roots with the first-of-its-kind animated Spider-Man feature, it was announced today at CinemaCon by Tom Rothman, chairman of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group. The film will exist independently of the projects in the live-action Spider-Man universe, all of which are continuing.''

Lord & Miller are masterminding the project, writing the treatment and producing the film.

''As previously announced, Spider-Man will next appear in a live-action Marvel film from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, a live-action film being produced by Kevin Feige at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. The animated film from Lord & Miller, dated July 20, 2018, has Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Pascal also serving as producers.''