SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Included 100 Original Spider-Man Variants Not From the Comics
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse features hundreds of Spider-Man and according to one of the directors, Justin Thompson, there were over 280 Spider-Man variants included in the film. Obviously, some of them were more prominent than others, but not all of them were from the comics.
According to co-writer and producer Chris Miller, there were around 100 original Spider-Man variants that were created for the film. This bit of news was included in a new book that was released, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie by Ramin Zahed. Miller explained how inspiring it was to have all of these different Spider-Man variants in the film saying:
"All kinds of people really got inspired to see themselves as a Spider-Person. We got to see designs of Spider-People of every background, shape, ability and interest. That was very inspiring for us to see, and it became a guiding light for us to create the menagerie that we could find at the Spider Society headquarters. Of course, we also mined all the comics for the great, weird spiders that exist in that world, but thinking through that all-encompassing lens from the audience perspective was also very important to us."
There weren’t enough Spider-Man characters in the comics to fill the movie, so the creative team had to start inventing them. Artist Kris Anka went on to explain:
"This was our chance to hint that the Spider-Verse is much bigger and has more possibilities than we have even seen in the comic books. It was a really cool opportunity for our character designers to really explore the different realms philosophically. While I was able to add forty-plus preexisting characters into the movie, there's always a need for more, so I ended up creating almost an additional one hundred completely original Spiders. These are supposed to be Spiders from all over the multi-verse, which allowed me to experiment wildly with both the costume designs and the render style."
I imagine that we’ll be seeing even more Spider-Man characters as the multiverse will continue to be explored in the upcoming film Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse.
Via: /Film