Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Has Been Delayed

“More time to make it great,” tweeted Spider-Verse writer and producer Chris Miller, explaining the reason for the delay.

More time to make it great 🕷

— Christopher Miller (@chrizmillr) April 21, 2022

Sony also released some very basic official synopses with the news and since you’re probably in shock at this moment, maybe these will ease the pain a bit. “Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered,” the official description reads. It then confirms the filmmaking team (directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and David Callaham) and mentions three cast members: Oscar Isaac, Shameik Moore, and Hailee Steinfeld.

Madame Web has even less but it’s interesting: “Madame Web is a clairvoyant whose psychic abilities allow her to see within the spider world itself. This is the story of how she came to be.” Johnson and Sydney Sweeney are confirmed along with director S.J. Clarkson and writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.

The news comes mere days after Across the Spider-Verse was originally going to hit theatres in April 2022, which feels a bit like salt in the wound at this point. But hopefully, the delay has nothing to do with problems, and everything to do with the filmmakers wanting as much time as possible to make sure their highly anticipated film is worth the wait. We think it will be.