Why is Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse taking so long? Producers Phil Lord & Chris Miller explain why

"The people who put the most pressure on themselves are the ones who put the most pressure on themselves." The heavily delayed Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is currently scheduled for a US release on June 18, 2027. If this film is released as planned, it will be released four years after the previous film "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" in 2023, and more than eight years after "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" in 2018. So why is it taking so long? In an interview with io9, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the producers of the "Spider-Verse" series, explained the reason for the delay. According to the two, the pressure they placed on themselves to surpass the previous two films, which received high critical and box office acclaim, was a major factor, and the enormous amount of work to make it happen also played a role. In addition, the problems associated with the decision to divide the sequel into two parts, and the need to not only reconstruct it into a coherent trilogy, but also establish each as an independent work, are also reasons why it took time. "At one point, it was one film, but there was so much content that we split it into two," Miller explains. "But when I looked back at the second half, I realized that this is not just a storyline with a beginning, a middle, and an end." Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023 Director: Joaquin dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson Cast: Shameik Moore, Haley Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, and others Watch ↗ on U-NEXT "I know where the story is going, but I needed to understand more deeply what's going on in the middle," Lord adds. "And when a family is torn apart by mission and talent, how do you bring it all together? "We're the ones who put the most pressure on ourselves," Miller continued. "We try to surpass ourselves every time, and we want to deliver a feeling that the audience has never seen or experienced yet, and trying to make it worthwhile comparable to the previous two films has been the driving force." "The fact that we had to take it apart once and then put it back together again is the biggest reason it really took so long," Miller said....