Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20170411234907/@comment-29908830-20171210000307

LoveWaffle wrote: Using the animated Miles Morales movie to introduce the Spider-Verse is smart. If the movie's a hit (or Venom or any of Sony's other products), Sony could use that conceit to work out a crossover with Tom Holland's Spider-Man.

Bonus points if the Peter Parker seen in the trailer is voiced by Tobey Maguire.

As a standalone story, I'm kinda iffy on it being Spider-Verse. It could act as a good parallel for Miles in how he has to live in Peter's shadow (as seen by him standing at his grave in the trailer), but I don't see how that would make sense to the mainstream audiences this film is targeting. We ARE going to get some of Miles' own story, as noted by the Davis Brothers being cast (Prowler is even in the trailer), but it playing second fiddle would be awkward, and using so many Spider-Men will confuse audiences, most likely.

On that note though, this does feel like a step in the right direction. If there's anything about Marvel's media representation that really pisses me off, it's animated films. While DC kills it with its comic-inspired storylines, Marvel hasn't done nearly as much, if at all. Most people don't even know Big Hero 6 is a Marvel property, and the last animated DTV film (which usually are able to portray the comics most accurately, complete with a PG-13 rating) for Marvel was released in 2011, not counting the anime films. I think Marvel needs to start making these kinds of films if they want to live up to DC's animated films (though Marvel is winning with TV shows... TTG...). Like, who wouldn't want an animated Kraven's Last Hunt movie on DVD?