African-Latino Spider-Man Miles Morales was only supposed to be around for four years in the pages of Marvel’s comics, created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli in 2011 as part of the alternate universe Ultimate Marvel imprint, which ended in 2015. This version of Spidey proved so popular that Marvel decided to merge him into the main line, and now he will be the focus of a feature-length animated movie.
The young star of Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope, Shameik Moore has signed on to voice the teenage superhero and Liev Schreiber will voice the film’s villain, though Sony has managed to keep his character’s identity a secret so far. Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey are in place to co-direct a script written by Phil Lord, who is producing the project with regular collaborator Christopher Miller. At present, the film is scheduled to be released on the same day as DC’s Aquaman.
Scheduled release date: December 21, 2018
