Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse wasn’t just an amazing superhero film, but a love letter to Spider-Man’s history and fans. A brand new photo gives fans a clear look at the film’s craziest cameo.
Readers beware! The article below contains massive spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Read at your own risk!
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse featured dozens of cameos that made fans perk up in their seats, including appearances by Josh Keaton’s Spectacular Spider-Man and Yuri Lowenthal’s Spider-Man. However, perhaps the most shocking cameo wasn’t even a Spider-Person, but instead an appearance of Donald Glover as the Prowler.
Donald Glover has had a massive influence on the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man. In fact, Miles was originally born from a scene in Community where Glover wore a Spider-Man shirt. He also voiced the character in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. While a bit old to every portray the character in live- action, Glover did make a small cameo as Miles’ uncle Aaron Davis in Spider-Man: Homecoming, though never suited up as the Prowler. This was rectified in Across the Spider-Verse where Glover made a quick cameo as the Prowler in a brand new suit. Full images of the suit can be seen below:
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With Donald Glover now attached to Sony’s Hypno Hustler project, it’s unlikely he’ll be seen as the Prowler anywhere else besides Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. However, even such a quick cameo means the world to many fans inspired by the character of Miles Morales that Glover, unintentionally, helped birth.
The team behind Across The Spider-Verse
Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson from a screenplay written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Dave Callaham, Across The Spider-Verse also features the voice talents of Jake Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Vélez, Jason Schwartzman, Rachel Dratch, Shea Whigham and Jorma Taccone. Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Christina Steinberg are producing the upcoming movie alongside Lord and Miller, who also worked on its predecessor.
The Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse synopsis reads as follows: “Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse saga… After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.”
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