Sony Pictures Animation has unveiled a new trailer for Spider-Man: About the Spider-Versethe successor to the 2018 Oscar winner Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verseon Tuesday, and it looks like civil war is brewing between the many, many spider men and women (and horses) of the multiverse. Spider-Man: About the Spider-Verse is scheduled for release on June 2.
This new trailer fleshes out what we already know about the movie’s premise: Miles Morales, the Spider-Man of Earth-1610 who took on the mantle of the wall-crawling arachnid superhero in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verseis plucked from his universe by his best friend (and love interest) Gwen Stacy, aka Spider-Gwen, and recruited to save the multiverse from an existential threat, along with an army of other Spider-people from the alternate universe.
Despite The Spot, the universe-hopping ne’er-do-well voiced by Jason Schwartzman, being the film’s apparent main antagonist, the conflict at the heart of the film seems to be between Miles and Miguel O’Hara’s aka Spider -Man, to be. 2099, respective approaches to dealing with the threat posed by The Spot. More specifically, whether being a hero means making the “hard but necessary” choices that others don’t have the will or power to make.
However this conflict between Miles and Miguel (played by Oscar Isaac) erupts, one thing is certain: Spider-Man: About the Spider-Verse is only the second act in a much larger story. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Versethe third installment in the Spider-Verse film series to be announced in 2023 Spider-Man: About the Spider-Verse (then titled “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)”), is scheduled for release on March 29, 2024.