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The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story (2024)

The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story poster
Directed by
Jarelle Dampier
Genre
psychological thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
7h 15m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 106 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Miles Morales deals with the stress of being Spider-Man. This triggers a strange and scary journey through his own subconscious.

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What happens

The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story is a 2023 American animated psychological thriller short film featuring the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) and produced by Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks. Taking place between Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), the short, directed by Jarelle Dampier and written by Khaila Amazan, is described as focusing on Morales when he "starts to feel the pressure of his life as Spider-Man, which results in a scary, trippy, shroomy little jaunt through his subconscious". The film was produced under presented by Sony Pictures Animation in association with Marvel Entertainment through Sony's LENS program, and premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 12, 2023. While debuting the short, Sony did not disclose how or when they intend to release it to a wider audience. It was later released on YouTube on March 27, 2024, ahead of the originally planned release date of Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027). The YouTube release was partnered with a fundraiser for the Kevin Love Fund. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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