Bad news for Spider-Verse fans. Sony has announced that the two part follow-up of the phenomenon that is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is going to be delayed yet again.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, as stated, will be a two part sequel to the first movie, which teamed up web slingers from different universes to help a new Spider-Man (Shameik Moore), Miles Morales, learn to control his powers in order to stop a multiverse catastrophe. Part 1 was set to be released April 8, 2022 but was pushed to October 7, 2022 due to COVID-19, only to be slid further down the schedule to June 2, 2023, which then puts Across the Spider-Verse Part 2 on the slate for March 29, 2024.

Got all that? Great. But, why all the schedule shuffling?

Co-writer and producer Chris Miller took to Twitter with a fairly simple explanation. He wrote,

"More time to make it great."

A strange reply to the Tweet came from Phil Lord, the other writer/producer of the film,

"Lolololololololololololololol," he followed this with, "(This is not about spiderverse ps )."

So it seems that a project of this caliber calls for a ton of collaboration according to Miller who spoke to ComicBook.com about the making of the film,

"This is a situation where the movie was so ambitious, it was trying to do so many groundbreaking things in its visual style, in its storytelling style, in its cinematic style. Everything about it ... The sound mix was probably going to be groundbreaking, so it required a lot of work. Every version of these movies is a collaboration of hundreds of filmmakers working together, and in the best versions people are contributing their creative ideas, and the people, the directors, and the producers are the ones that get to decide which of the things fit the road that you're going down."

Across the Spider-Verse brings back stars Hailee Steinfeld to reprise Gwen Stacy, Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker, and Oscar Isaac playing Miguel O'Hara / Spider-Man 2099. Adding to the star studded cast is Insecure's Issa Rae who will be adding her voice to Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (part one) will be swinging into theaters on June 2, 2023.

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