Across The Spider-Verse’s Lord & Miller Interview – Crew Call Podcast – Deadline

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After the massive weekend success of Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, there are a lot of rival studios that are looking at executing their comic book IP differently on the big screen. Quite often, animated superhero projects are released directly to the home (think Warner Bros DC’s myriad superhero toon movies like 2010’s Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam and Disney+/Marvel Studio’s avant garde series What If?). Leave it to the guys who bedazzled many with near half billion grossing The Lego Movie, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, to revolutionize the family animated game once again.

On today’s episode of Crew Call we talk with the writers and producers of Across the Spider-Verse on one-upping the animated style from their first movie, the Oscar winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, juggling a slew of projects via their production shingle Lord Miller (they produced the winter $87M-grossing hit, Cocaine Bear, and they have the second season of The Afterparty on AppleTV+ this July and the Universal R-rated doggie comedy, Strays out in August in theaters), their next live-action feature directorial and their thoughts on what AMPTP needs to do to end this WGA Strike.

Says Lord, hopeful about writers’ future, “The thing to keep in mind which is simple to understand is that writers pay is down 25% and budgets are up and executive compensation is up. It’s not sustainable that way. I think a fair deal is absolutely within reach.”

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse nabbed the best opening of summer to date at $120.6M stateside, the third best ever domestic opening for a Spider-Man film, with an overall global start of $209M.

You can listen to our chat below: