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Into The Spider-Verse 2 has been delayed, and we want to cry

Across the Spider-Verse has been delayed to summer 2023 as Sony Pictures rearranges its release calendar, and people are not taking the news well

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Across the Spider-Verse has been delayed to summer 2023 as Sony Pictures rearranges its release calendar. The animated movie was supposed to swing into theatres on October 7 this year, but the Spider-Verse 2 release date has been pushed back to June 2, 2023.

Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, Into The Spider-Verse was a rip-roaring action movie that saw several Spider-Men and (two Spider-Women) from across different dimensions team up to save the multiverse. The film was a huge commercial and critical success, even the best animated movie Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards. In fact, the film’s so widely beloved it’s often called the best Spider-Man movie ever.

The eagerly anticipated sequel will see Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) once again team up with Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), and his other spider-powered friends, as they reunite to stop a powerful new villain who threatens all of reality.  As you might expect, news that the adventure movie has been delayed has gone down like a lead balloon in the Spider-Verse fandom.

Most fans were shocked:

Although some were a little more patient:

Interestingly when Spider-Verse 2 changed its release date, it also changed its title. The film was originally called Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part 1), but now it’s just Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

Don’t panic, though. We’re still getting a sequel, although Across the Spider-Verse 2 has been pushed back to 2024. If you love Spider-Verse, check out our guide on alternate Spider-Men we’d like to see in Spider-Verse 2, or if you prefer live-action, we have a piece on a potential Spider-Man 4 release date.

After graduating with an MA in journalism from the University of Salford, Tom set out to make a career for himself in the heady world of entertainment journalism. After spending six years working at UNILAD (and moonlighting at the BBC) where he interviewed the likes of Hugh Grant, Hugh Jackman, and Hugh Bonneville (plus other people not called Hugh) he left to find his fortune as editor at The Digital Fix where he spends his days trying to guess if the MCU's Doctor Doom will be in Avengers Secret Wars, thinking about Spider-Man, and watching Game of Thrones in a desperate attempt to untangle the Targaryen family tree.