Spider-Man, he’s such an icon.”Īll that history is packed into a winking moment in Across the Spider-Verse, where it’s not specified that Glover is continuing his role as the Uncle Aaron of Holland’s Spidey universe. (In an even twistier full-circle moment, Bendis has credited the Community moment when Glover’s character Troy wears Spider-Man pajamas as an inspiration for creating Miles.) While doing press for the show, Glover told USA Today that he still hoped to play Spider-Man in a live-action film, and that “I don’t look at this as second place. Of course, Andrew Garfield ended up landing the coveted role as Peter-3, with Glover’s thumbs-up: He told Vulture at the time that Garfield’s Peter Parker was “kinda dope.” And Glover did end up voicing a version of Spider-Man, Miles Morales, in Disney XD’s Ultimate Spider-Man in 2014, three years after the character was introduced in Marvel Comics by writer Brian Michael Bendis. I don’t know who he’s going to be, or what he’s going to do, but we have to figure out a way.’” By then, it had been seven years since fans launched a viral internet campaign ( #Donald4Spiderman) to cast Glover as the star web-slinger in director Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man. Times, “One of the very first things I said to Kevin when I got the job was, ‘We’ve got to put Donald Glover in this movie. It’s a clever wink to Glover’s oft-documented Spider-Man fandom, which landed him a role as Aaron in 2017’s Tom Holland–starring Spider-Man: Homecoming.Īround the time of Homecoming’s release, director Jon Watts told the L.A. Spider-Punk, and Gwen Stacy bicker over who captured this multiverse anomaly. “It’s rude to stare,” Glover says to a stunned Miles while Hobie, a.k.a.
While being escorted around Miguel O’Hara’s Spider-Society in Nueva York, Miles sees an imprisoned, live-action Prowler in an uncanny moment à la Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Miles Morales’s uncle Aaron - though not the animated version we saw in the last movie. 1 Spider-Man fan himself, Donald Glover, as the Prowler, a.k.a. So the animators employed forced perspective to create the illusion of distance-even though, technically speaking, all of the toons were drawn on top of the film.Spoilers ahead for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.Īs promised, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse traverses a beautifully animated multiverse chock-full of Spider-People and fun Easter eggs. Some toons needed to appear to be in the foreground, and other toons needed to appear in the background. The animation took over a year to complete. The animation team (led by Richard Williams), which drew the characters onto the film during post-production, thus completing the illusion.The sets were built eight feet above the ground, giving the puppeteers somewhere to hide. The puppet team (led by David Alan Barclay), which hovered stage props mid-air, allowing toons to interact with real world objects.The mechanical effects team (led by George Gibbs), which built servomotor-run machines to perform the toons' actions.And during the filming and post-production, Ralston coordinated the efforts of:
This was a fluid process many times, what was planned beforehand would be thrown out once filming actually started. Ralston worked with Zemeckis and the rest of the crew in pre-production to determine what was practical and possible. It would be Ralston's job to channel Avery's anarchic spirit into Roger Rabbit-to produce that same sort of edgy, outlandish visual humor in a pre-digital era. Rather than aspiring to realism, Avery famously reasoned, "In a cartoon, you can do anything." One can see his wisecracking influence on Looney Tunes many of its famous characters, including Daffy Duck, were his invention. As a director and animator, Avery was known for his liberal use of cartoon physics and sped-up sight gags.
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