Daniel Kaluuya Gives an Update on the Upcoming Spider-Punk Movie in Development: 'We're In Our Process'

Daniel Kaluuya precocious teased his upcoming Spider-Punk animated feature, revealing wherever helium and cowriter Ajon Singh are successful their improvement alongside Sony Pictures.

The histrion confirmed helium and Singh are successful the “finishing stages” of a archetypal draught of the publication for the project, successful a caller interrogation with Deadline, and explained: “We’re successful our process.” That said, Kaluuya was tight-lipped erstwhile it came to crippled details, with his lone effect astir whether the movie would beryllium a standalone task oregon if different characters from the Spider-Verse would look being “TBD.”

Kaluuya, who garnered an Oscar information for his relation successful Get Out, besides revealed that the “intense” effect to his quality Spider-Punk successful the 2023 movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse laid the groundwork for this project. “It’s breathtaking to beryllium penning thing successful this space,” helium said successful the interview.

He added: “Those Spider-Verse films, they talk to me. I was truthful inspired by them. I deliberation the filmmakers and the animators are immoderate of the champion storytellers successful the game. So, I privation to enactment myself successful environments wherever I tin turn and larn what they know.”

Kaluuya besides noted that Spider-Verse writers Phil Lord — who Kaluuya called a “great storyteller” alongside cowriter Christopher Miller during the interrogation — antecedently gave him a important enactment successful an aboriginal attraction of the movie that shaped his perspective: “films aren’t astir people, they’re astir relationships.”

“They besides pat into a joyousness of cinema and storytelling and animation,” helium added of the filmmaking duo. “And I deliberation joyousness is truthful hard to bash and that’s thing I’m aspiring for. They emotion what they bash and that’s what the assemblage is truly feeling.”

Kaluuya is acceptable to reprise his relation arsenic Hobart “Hobie” Brown aka Spider-Punk successful 2027’s Beyond the Spider-Verse, but it appears helium volition besides bash truthful successful this caller film, whenever it hits theaters successful the adjacent future.

Spider-Punk archetypal appeared successful Marvel comics successful 2015 arsenic a stateless teen who becomes a leader to the citizens of New York successful his ain universe, sporting the aforesaid powers arsenic Peter Parker but with a heavy affinity for punk rock. This grungy Spider-Man is the person of an underground absorption against Norman Osborn's authoritarian rule, and he's not wholly sold connected the thought of the Spider Society.

It's a engaged clip for Spider-Man generally. Production connected Tom Holland’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day is underway (as everyone successful Glasgow, Scotland knows), with a July 31, 2026 merchandise date. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse arrives a twelvemonth later, connected June 18, 2027. There’s besides Spider-Noir, a live-action Prime Video bid starring Nicolas Cage, owed retired adjacent year.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.