*The new Sony animated film, Spider-Man- Into the Spider-Verse introduces audiences to a new type of super hero in Myles Morales – a young man of color who shows kids that anyone can be a super hero.
In the film, Morales (Shameik Moore) becomes Spider-Man after being bitten by a radioactive spider. The kid from Brooklyn comes to term with his new powers while trying to stop a group of super villains who want to create inter-dimensional travel with potentially damaging effects on the future. During Myles journey, he teams up with a host of new Spider-Heroes from different dimensions, the include a black-and-white noir Spider-Man (Nicholas Cage), a chubby-pizza eating Spider-Man (Jake Johnson) going through a mid-life crisis, a futuristic Japanese Spider-girl (Kimiko Glenn), a cartoon Spider-Pig (John Mulaney) and a friend with her own secret, Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld). Each spider-character comes from an actual comic series
In the alternate universe, there’s a Peter Parker that we’ve ever seen before. This is Peter at 40 – after being Spider-Man for 20 years — he’s saved the city, got the girl by marring Mary Jane, and cashed out on all the endorsement opportunities that came his way. But then his marriage falls apart, he’s moved into a tiny apartment and started vegging out eating pizza and growing a beer belly.
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EURweb’s Jill Munroe say down with the cast and producers to discuss the impact of having Spider-Man be a black and Puerto Rican kid from Brooklyn.
Brian Tyree Hill (FX’s Atlanta, Widows) who voices Myles father Jefferson Davis said
“there’s flavor, there’s flavor to this kid and it’s a household in Brooklyn that we know. These households exist. I’m a huge fan of this universe… I remember coming up when they made the first Spider-Man, the one thing I knew for a fact was that Spider-Man was Peter Parker and Peter Parker was white. I never thought any further than that. What I love now is that this universe has opened up so wide, and we need it now more than ever. “
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse also stars Mahershala Ali, Luna Lauren Velez, Liev Schreiber, Lily Tomlin and features a cameo from the man behind many of Marvel’s iconic superheroes, Stan Lee who passed away on November 12.
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” hits theaters Dec. 14.
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