Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse animator tweets he’s begun work on sequel to the Oscar-winning animated film: ‘First day on the job!’
The sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is still on track for a 2022 release.
The superhero film was originally slated to come out on April 8, 2022, and despite scheduling setbacks due to COVID-19 is still on course for a release sometime that year, according to a tweet by animator Nick Kondo on Tuesday.
His tweet showed a brief video of the film’s logo, along with the number ‘2022’.
Coming soon-ish: The sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is still on track for a 2022 release
The film and video game technician captioned the tweet, ‘First day on the job!’ indicating that the highly-anticipated film had only just started production.
In April, Sony announced that Into the Spider-Verse 2 would move its original release date back to October 7, 2022.
The film will be directed by Joaquim Does Santos, taking over from the helming trio of Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman from the first film.
2022: The superhero film was originally slated to come out on April 8, 2022, and despite scheduling setbacks due to COVID-19 is still on course for a release sometime that year
New blood: The film will be directed by Joaquim Does Santos, taking over from the helming trio of Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman from the first film
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was honored with Best Animated Feature at the 2019 Academy Awards.
The critical darling featured the voices of actors such as Chris Pine, Shameik Moore, Lily Tomlin and Nicolas Cage.
It holds an astounding 97% Fresh rating on critical aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and fan ratings have placed it at #66 on IMDb’s Top 250 movies of all time.
Acclaimed: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was honored with Best Animated Feature at the 2019 Academy Awards