The Animated SPIDER-MAN Movie Casts Shameik Moore as Miles Morales and Liev Schreiber as the Villain

The animated Spider-Man movie just cast its two main leads! Shameik Moore will be taking on the role of Miles Morales. You might know him from the fantastic indie film Dope and Netflix's hip-hop drama The Get Down. He will be joined by Liev Schreiber (Ray Donavan, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), who will be providing the voice of the villain of the story. We have yet to learn who exactly that villain will be. 

This is the first Spider-Man film project to be made that doesn't feature the Peter Parker version of Spider-Man and I'm excited to see how Miles Morales is handled in this adaptation. I'm sure it will be great because Phil Lord wrote the script. Lord has co-developed projects such as The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street, and he's currently shooting Lucasfilm's Han Solo movie.

All we know about the movie at this point is that the story will focus on Morales as "he juggles school life and superheroics in the classic Spider-Man mold." The Little Prince writer Bob Persichetti is attached to co-direct alongside Peter Ramsey (Rise of the Guardians).

Miles Morales was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli and this character was introduced in 2011 in Ultimate Fallout #4, following the death of Peter Parker. He's grown to be quite a popular character and he's also appeared in the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man. where he was voiced by Donald Glover. It would've been cool to see Glover reprise the role for the movie, but Moore will be great!

Now, who do you think the big bad villain of the film will be?

Source: THR