Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has found its Spider-Punk in Daniel Kaluuya.

Academy Award winner Daniel Kaluuya has signed on to voice Spider-Punk in Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the sequel to the Oscar-winning animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.

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Spider-Punk is one of the most recent iterations of Spider-Man, debuting in 2015’s The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 3 #10. He was created by Dan Slott and Olivier Coipel and his real name is Hobart “Hobie” Brown. This version of Spider-Man is a homeless teenager who becomes the wall-crawler and opposes President Norman Osborn’s V.E.N.O.M. troops and the Inheritors.

Daniel Kaluuya is no stranger to the superhero genre, having previously played W’Kabi in the Marvel Studios movie Black Panther. He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his work as Fred Hampton in last year’s Judas and the Black Messiah.

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 voices of Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, Oscar Isaac, Issa Rae, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Vélez, Jason Schwartzman, Rachel Dratch, Shea Whigham and Jorma Taccone. Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Christina Steinberg are producing alongside Lord and Miller.

Sony’s official Across The Spider-Verse synopsis reads as follows: “Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.”

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse is currently scheduled to hit theaters on June 2, 2023. Stay tuned for the latest news regarding the upcoming movie and make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content!

Source: The Hollywood Reporter