Test audiences didn’t like Spider-Verse’s original ending, so director borrowed from Star Wars books

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Test audiences didn’t like Spider-Verse’s original ending, so director borrowed from Star Wars books

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse The ending was apparently added at the last minute after test screenings came back negative, and it’s all thanks to Star Wars.

Obviously, there are spoilers for the ending of Into the Spider-Verse .

It’s safe to say that Into the Spider-Verse is a middling movie. While it does do some interesting things in its own right, the last 20 minutes or so have to do a lot of legwork to set up the upcoming trilogy of Beyond the Spider-Verse. Anyone who’s seen it knows that in order to get home, Miles Morales actually ended up in the universe of the spider that bit him, where he discovered that he in this universe was none other than the villainous Prowler. The nickname his uncle used in the first film. In a recent interview with Collider , directors Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers, and Joaquim Dos Santos stated that the film originally ended there, with the two Miles staring at each other.

“I think another thing that might surprise you is the ending that you just watched, where Spider-Gwen goes out and gathers Peter B., Mayday, Penny, Noel, and Ham, and she gets the band back together to save Mai Well, you’re filled with hope and excitement like, “Oh, they’re going to go back,” and, “Oh, here it comes!” They’re going to get the band back together,’ – which didn’t happen until then about six weeks before the movie ended,” Thompson explained after being asked about something that might surprise fans.

“We actually did a screening and as soon as it ended, Miles was bagged and everyone was like, ‘Shh!’ We were like, ‘Oh my God, what are we going to do? We must do something. ” We ran back and very quickly we started brainstorming and realized. We went back and watched The Empire Strikes Back again and said, “How does The Empire Strikes Back do that?” “We realized, ‘Oh, they give you hope at the end.'”

Powers went on to explain that this last-minute change worked mainly because they already knew what was going to happen in the next scene, “so in our mind we had continuity, like we knew where the story was going. .”

While this is an interesting tidbit about how the main sequels ended up being tied together, it’s also important to remember that the working conditions on the project were allegedly quite unsustainable, with some animators reportedly working over 11 hours a day, every day Work 7 days. A week, more than a year.

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