The sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is moving forward with three directors at the helm.
According to Variety, Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson are the directing trio for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2. Dos Santos was already reported to be directing the Sony Pictures Animation sequel, though Powers and Thompson have been working with Dos Santos from the start.
The original Into the Spider-Verse producers (Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Amy Pascal, Avi Arad and Christina Steinberg) will also produce the sequel for Sony.
"The crew behind the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse set such a ridiculously high bar, and we're humbled to take on the challenge of charting the next chapter in the story of Miles Morales," Dos Santos, Powers and Thompson said in a joint statement.
"We are so lucky to have Joaquim, Justin and Kemp on the Spider-Verse team," Lord and Miller said in a statement. "We are huge fans of Joaquim's work -- he makes his characters so heartfelt and unique, and he can tell an emotional story with an action sequence the way a musical does through a song. Justin is a maverick filmmaker who relentlessly pursues visual innovation and surprise but always in support of the emotional storytelling. Kemp's work is incisive and ambitious and funny -- with a writer's wisdom and a director's heart -- he just knows what matters in every scene. All three of them elevate every project they take on, and they are certainly raising our game. We honestly just like them and want to be their friends and we're hoping working on this movie together for the next few years will totally make that happen."
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 arrives in theaters Oct. 7, 2022.
Source: Variety
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