That Animated Spider Man Movie Will Swing Into Theaters A Little Later Than Expected

That Animated Spider-Man Movie Will Swing Into Theaters A Little Later Than Expected

By Jacob Hall/Dec. 22, 2015 2:00 pm EST

The end results: Sony signed off on Peter Parker joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America: Civil War before getting his own solo movie that is set for release on July 28, 2017…and a new animated Spider-Man movie with no connection to his live action counterpart from directors/miracle workers Chris Miller and Phil Lord. However, that second project has undergone a delay and will no longer open in the summer of 2018. It has shifted to a new date with a handful of interesting, if not solid, implications.

Sony’s ANIMATED SPIDER-MAN flick will now cast its web 12/21/18 instead of summer 2018.

— Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) December 22, 2015

Although Sony splitting Spider-Man into two completely separate franchises certainly seems weird, it’s the exact kind of uphill struggle that has defined the careers of Lord and Miller. With projects like Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street, and The LEGO Movie, they delivered some of the best mainstream movies in recent years despite each project being built around a core concept that was totally rotten. So what happens when you give them a character as fundamentally sound and well-liked as Spider-Man and the total freedom of an animated world? Magic. Maybe. It’s easy to trust these guys. Hell, we have to trust these guys because they’re also making that Han Solo spin-off movie and we don’t want to imagine a world where two certified geniuses somehow screw up two beloved characters.

Anyway, we have literally no idea what Lord and Miller’s Spider-Man will look or feel like, so here’s the theme song to the original Spider-Man cartoon. If the new movie is half as much fun to watch as this thing is to sing while stuck in traffic, then we are all in for a treat.