Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Film)

Spider-Man will be the second animated theatrical film based on a Marvel Comics after.

Rumors about the film were first circulated on December 9th, 2014 following the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack. The Wall Street Journal attained some emails taken from the hack. The emails suggested that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, coming off the success of The Lego Movie and 22 Jump Street, would direct an animated feature.

On April 22nd, 2015, Sony officially announced the film at CinemaCon.

The depiction of Spider-Man will not be a part of the The Amazing Spider-Man series or Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It 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.''

Trivia

 * Directors Lord and Miller previously made Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs which featured Neil Patrick Harris. Harris was the voice of on.