Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse co-director Rodney Rothman revealed an alt-universe cut will be included on the film’s upcoming home release.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is fresh off its Oscar win for Best Animated Feature from Sunday and the film is also hitting shelves soon. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will be released digitally on February 26th and on Blu-Ray, UltraHD, 4K and DVD on March 19th. During a press event for the upcoming home release, co-director Rodney Rothman revealed to Cinema Blend an alt-universe cut will be included:
“[Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse] had an unusual amount of material at every stage of production. So, an insane amount of storyboard material, like insane, like break your high end edit systems insane. An insane amount of layout, an insane amount of finished animation that didn’t make it into the movie… an unusual amount. So the Alt-Universe Cut contains a bunch of that stuff that we chose not to put in the movie, but that in an alternate universe easily could have ended up in the movie. So, uh, that’s kind of the premise behind it.”
Miles Morales’ best friend in the Ultimate Spider-Man comics is Ganke Lee, who is actually seen briefly throughout the film. Spider-Man: Homecoming‘s Ned Leeds was very much inspired by the Ultimate character and Rothman went to say the alt-universe cut will explore more of Miles and Ganke’s relationship:
“The alt version is more beholden to the idea that Miles and Ganke were buddies and roommates, and there’s a lot more of roommate stuff happening. And what we ended up running into was just to two things. It was just like, ‘Oh, wow. Homecoming, Ned – very similar to Ganke.’ Really. And then, ‘Well, maybe it’s actually better if Miles experiences these things without a really well-educated Sherpa holding his hand through all the powers coming on and everything,’ and it ended up helping us out for that place where Peter comes into the movie.”
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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street, bring their unique talents to a fresh vision of a different Spider-Man Universe, with a groundbreaking visual style that’s the first of its kind. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse introduces Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, and the limitless possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask.
Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman with a screenplay by Phil Lord, the film features the voices of Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Jake Johnson, Liev Schreiber, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez and Lily Tomlin.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is in theaters now!
Source: Cinema Blend
