Few films released in 2023 were as visually sophisticated, narratively complex and emotionally resonant as “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” the follow-up to 2018’s Oscar-winning “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Watching the movie, you can feel what a massive undertaking it must have been – wrangling dozens of Spider-characters, imagining several artistically disparate worlds and crafting a story that is as compelling to the comic book novice as it is to Spider-Man fanatics.
And that Herculean task fell to the core creative team behind “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” writer/producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller and directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K.