Sony and Marvel’s agreement to allow Spider-Man to appear in future Marvel films won’t be the only big-screen adventures we can look forward to for the wall-crawler: today at CinemaCon, Sony announced that Phil Lord and Chris Miller are developing an animated Spider-Man film for a July 20, 2018 release.
According to the press release, the film will exist independently of the live-action Spider-Man adventures, which means that Lord and Miller should be able to mine the entire Spider-Man universe for inspiration. The duo will write the treatment for the film, and will serve as producers alongside Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Amy Pascal.
No word yet on whether or not Lord and Miller will direct the Spider-Man animated film, but we’ll keep you posted as more information becomes available. For now, here’s the official press release from Sony.
SPIDER-MAN GETS ANIMATED AND DATED WITH PHIL LORD & CHRISTOPHER MILLER AND SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
LAS VEGAS, Nev., April 22, 2015 – 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.
Spider-Man, embraced all over the world, is the most successful franchise in the history of Sony Pictures, with the five films having taken in more than $4 billion worldwide.
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