The composer of Sony’s Spider-Verse films has been quick to shut down rumours circulating online that “most” of the material for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, had been scrapped for “creative reasons.”
“Don’t really ever want to weigh in on this sort of stuff BUT would you ever believe there could sometimes be stuff on the internet that might not always be particularly accurate? Hmmmm…,” writes Daniel Pemberton on X, arguing against claims made by Jeff Sneider on The Insneider’s Scoop.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse was scheduled for release on March 29, 2024. The release window was later revised for July 2023, in light of the WGA writers’ and SAG-AFTRA actors’ strike at the time, with Sneider suggesting Beyond wouldn’t see the light of day until “before 2027.”
In an interview published by ComicBook in June 2023, producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller provided their two cents on early reports, following the release of Across the Spider-Verse, that the third film would be delayed.
“I would say that just like we’re going to take the time necessary to make Beyond the Spider-Verse great,” Lord said. This was followed by Miller finalising the answer. “And we won’t back into a release date that doesn’t fit.”
Around the same time, GamesRadar+ interviewed Pemberton for an update on Beyond. The team, he said, were “beavering away on it as we speak and I think the main thing for everyone is we are so proud of what we have done on these movies and you want a classic trilogy, you don’t want to let it down, you don’t want to Godfather it. We are feeling added pressure – in capital letters, underlined, with a big exclamation mark at the end.”
