After Years Of Delays, ‘Beyond the Spider-Verse’ Screens First Footage At CinemaCon

Sony’s CinemaCon tease for Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson’s Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse raised the franchise’s stakes, struck an intimate narrative tone, and hinted at the ambition of the long-delayed finale. Originally planned for a 2024 release, the third Spider-Verse film will hit theaters on June 18 of next year.

The company shared a few new images online, with the teaser being played only at the event. The rest of us will have to wait to get our first taste of movement, but here are the stills:

According to reports from CinemaCon, the early footage picked up directly after Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, with Miles Morales stranded on Earth-42, where his bizarro self has become the Prowler. The scene focused on Miles trying to talk his way out of captivity, keeping the tension intimate and character-driven before the story presumably expands outward, with some of Miles’s closet pals from the previous films showing up as backup.

It is an obvious re-entry point that centers on Miles’ identity crisis before jumping straight into a multiversal spectacle sure to fill out the rest of the ambitious finale’s runtime.

That approach aligns with how producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have framed the film as the concluding chapter of Miles’ arc. Rather than being fueled by some larger, trans-dimensional drama, the main narrative thrust of the final fill will be the question of whether Miles can define his own story in a system that keeps telling him what he is supposed to be. Of course, there will be plenty of shock and awe to go along with it, and Lord promised that all the fan-favorite characters will return, but all in service of a character-driven conclusion.

Reports of the footage describe rapid shifts in color, texture, and dimensional logic, building on the already dense visual language established in the two earlier films. The tease eventually expanded to include characters like Spider-Punk (who is getting his own spinoff) and Peter B. Parker, hinting at a broader coming together, although it would take some doing to cast a wider web than 2023’s Across the Spider-Verse. (Check out our previous piece about the two years it took to assemble a cast of hundreds of Spider-Men.

The key takeaway seems to be that Sony is not just selling scale with its highly anticipated franchise-ender. The studio is positioning Beyond the Spider-Verse as an intimate resolution, both narratively and emotionally. After years of delays, the first footage comes with tremendous hype and equally __ expectations.