Spider-Man Movies Heading Toward End Of Sony’s Animated Spider-Verse Era

Sony Pictures used its CinemaCon stage this week to mark what feels like a quiet turning point for one of the most acclaimed corners of superhero cinema. The studio confirmed that Beyond the Spider-Verse, arriving on June 18, 2027, will close the animated trilogy that began with Into the Spider-Verse and continued with Across the Spider-Verse. Writers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who have shaped the franchise from the start, framed the upcoming film plainly as the final chapter of Miles Morales’ story.

Spider-Man on the big screen has lived through several distinct eras. Nicholas Hammond carried the character through television films in the late seventies and early eighties. Then came Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland, each running their own live-action interpretation of Peter Parker. The Spider-Verse trilogy stood apart from all of that. Animated, stylistically fearless, and built around Miles Morales rather than Peter, it slowly became the most critically respected Spider-Man project Sony has ever produced.

What Beyond The Spider-Verse Will Cover

The footage shown at CinemaCon picks up exactly where Across the Spider-Verse cut to black. Miles is stranded in an alternate dimension with no clear way home, his father’s fate hanging over him because of what the franchise calls canon events. Lord and Miller said Miles will need to rebuild old friendships and form unlikely new ones to hold his family together. The writers also signalled, through Miles’ own voice in the footage, that the film will lean into the idea of breaking from how things have always been done.

The numbers behind the trilogy explain why this ending carries weight. Into the Spider-Verse holds a 97 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, while Across the Spider-Verse sits at 95 percent. Both films earned strong CinemaScore grades from opening-weekend audiences, an A-plus and an A. Few comic book trilogies have ever entered their final film with that kind of consistency behind them.

Sony, however, is not stepping away from animated Spider-Man stories. Three more projects are already moving forward beyond the trilogy. Daniel Kaluuya, who voiced Hobie Brown in Across the Spider-Verse, is co-writing a Spider-Punk solo film with Ajon Singh, though it remains unclear whether the project will be a prequel or a continuation of where Hobie ended up.

A long-developing Spider-Woman film, in the works since 2018, is also on the slate. Hailee Steinfeld’s Gwen Stacy and Issa Rae’s Jessica Drew are expected to lead it alongside Silk, though the creative team beyond Lord and Miller has not been disclosed. Sometime this year, the franchise will also expand through Octo-Girl, the Shōnen Jump manga that began in June 2023, with its fourth volume titled Superior arriving in 2026.

There is also a separate animated symbiote project in development, an R-rated film from the directors of Final Destination: Bloodlines, with Tom Hardy reportedly attached in some form. Whether it connects to the live-action Venom trilogy, the Spider-Verse, or stands alone has not been revealed.

For now, the focus stays on Miles. If Beyond the Spider-Verse delivers on what Lord and Miller showed at CinemaCon, the trilogy could end up sitting alongside the most celebrated comic book sagas ever put to screen. What happens after, with the spin-offs and the manga and the symbiote experiment, is a different conversation. The Miles Morales chapter, though, is heading into its last pages, and it is doing so on its own terms.