‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Was Actually Inspired By This Video Game

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse just won Best Animated Feature at the 91st annual Academy Awards Sunday evening. Naturally, this win has put the groundbreaking film back into the forefronts of moviegoers minds. Marvel writer Dan Slott has taken the opportunity to divulge the secret origin of the Oscar-winning film.

Via his personal Twitter account, Dan Slott started an all-consuming thread where he discloses exactly how Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse went from a simple idea to a feature film worthy of Hollywood’s most prestigious recognition. The story begins, as most stories do, with a phone call from a video game developer called Beenox in 2009. They wanted to fly Slott and his storied Marvel knowledge out to Quebec to get his input on a project called Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. It was an ambitious game featuring multiple iterations of the Spider-Man character from the comics.

Slott obliged and after his playtest, he called his editor:

“Told him the game looked GREAT and that we should do this story in the comics, but one up them, make it BIGGER and do something they couldn’t do, have all the Spideys interact, and use EVERY SPIDER-MAN EVER!”

This is the moment the seed for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was planted. Then, according to Slott, the idea grew after Brian Michael Bendis pitched a comics story that partnered up Peter Parker with Miles Morales. Over the next couple of years, the idea of a so-called “Spider-Verse” took various forms through many mediums, including a comic book event, a toy line, and a cartoon.

It was inevitable that some variant of a Spider-Man Spider-Verse would become a feature film. And boy is Dan Slott glad it did:

“But nothing will ever top that there’s a Spider-Verse movie now– an #oscar nominated movie, that’s my favorite Spider-Man movie ever!”

Dan tells the story in more detail with his tweets, which you can check out below:

What do you think about the origin of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse? Are you at all surprised? Are you similarly glad it became a movie? Let us know in the comments below!

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street, bring their unique talents to a fresh vision of a different Spider-Man Universe, with a groundbreaking visual style that’s the first of its kind.  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse introduces Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, and the limitless possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask.

Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman with a screenplay by Phil Lord, the film features the voices of Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Jake Johnson, Liev Schreiber, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez and Lily Tomlin.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is in theaters now!

Source: Twitter