Hi, everyone, I'm Phil Lord,
And I'm Chris Miller.
And I'm Hailee Steinfeld, and we want to welcome you to the official
YouTube Afterparty to celebrate the release
of the first trailer for "Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse."
We're here to talk about the trailer and of course reveal a few
exclusive details, don't tell anyone, about the film, in this first ever
trailer drop after party.
And thank you so much, Hailee, for being here to celebrate
with us and for returning to the role of Gwen, AKA Spider-Gwen.
Just when I thought it couldn't get any more spectacular,
we see this trailer and now I'm just at a loss for words.
-It feels like a party, right? -It's a party!
It's a bunch of lights
and three chairs and people sit with their legs crossed.
I will say we didn't shout out the directors.
The Incredible Kemp Powers who worked on "Soul" and "One Night in Miami,"
and he came up with the germ of the idea that turned into this trailer.
Justin Thompson, this is the first time he's stepping into the director's chair.
A production designer on the first movie and a visual genius,
and Joaquim dos Santos, who is probably the best action director
there is in animation and super, super talented.
The three of them doing gangbusters work.
Also exciting is that Bob Persichetti, one of the directors
on the last movie is on this film as an EP
and working every day on the animation.
I, much like the fans everywhere, I imagine are dying to know more
about the story.
The trailer definitely hints at the action that we would expect,
but it's also so rooted and really grounded in its heart
and in its family, which has really always been at the center, right,
of this story.
The thing that was indestructible, from the very first screening
is Miles and his family.
He is from like an intact,
together family with two parents that are trying do a great job
and that's one of his superpowers.
And you know, and Miles is a teenager.
You know when you're growing up, there's that feeling of you want to see
what the world has to offer and you want to go out there and the push and pull
of wanting to stay rooted with your family and then also
leave the nest is part of what the whole movie is about.
And so the first movie was about, you know, the idea
that anyone can wear the mask, and this movie is really about
how do you wear the mask?
You mentioned that Miles is wanting to see more of Gwen.
Yes.
It's sort of like the older girl that goes off to college
a year earlier, and the kid who's, like, "Maybe I'll come up and visit you
at college sometime."
And you're like, "Uh, okay."
Maybe not?
Yeah...I got a lot going on, but...
But basically you get invited into Oscar Isaac's cool spider force.
Oh, so I'm the--
You're the cool one.
-And you get invited-- -That's cold
Yeah, into like the Spider Society and Miles doesn't.
And you sort of can't tell him why.
So we have some exclusive images to reveal to you guys.
Right here on this YouTube after party.
-Jess Drew. -Whoo.
There she is played by Issa Rae.
She looks really cool.
You may notice that she is pregnant, which is based on a run of the comics
where she was pregnant during the Secret Wars,
and what's cool about Gwen is that she has a special relationship
with Jess because she sees her as a potential mentor,
someone who seems to have it all figured out but learns, ultimately, it's hard.
She is amazing and she, in this film, you guys, from what I have seen,
the little that I've seen, beyond.
All right now we're going to do another character reveal.
This one is of Spider-Man India, Pavitr Prabhakar.
He lives in a world we're calling Mumbattan, which is based
on these 70s comic books in India.
The idea for this dimension is that it's Manhattan, but in reverse.
So instead of it going up, it goes down.
Should we do another character reveal?
Okay, there it is: Spider-Punk, voiced by Daniel Kaluuya.
So cool.
Hobie Brown, he's got a lot of flair.
He's a really fun character.
Daniel is--he's bringing his Camden...
How cool.
Yeah, he's from Camden, like, the birthplace of Punk.
And you know, and he and Gwen are best buddies,
and they have a rapport.
They're both musicians.
They're both like bad-ass
and it makes Miles feel a little jealous
that they've got this bond going on between them
and and he's a lot of fun character.
Have you noticed that your shoes are different in this movie?
-From the last. -Yes, yes.
You've got the Spider-Gwen chucks now.
The Spider-Gwen chucks which, we just wrote this into the movie,
They are Hobie's.
-What? Stop. -You borrowed them.
Okay, Jake Johnson is Peter Parker.
Yes, Peter B. Parker.
Peter B. Parker was wearing a Baby Bjorn.
Yes, good eye.
With no--sans baby.
So he's in a family way.
That's right.
Peter got back with Mary Jane
and they had a baby, Mayday.
-Baby Mayday, who is in the film. -What?
It is true.
She has--
She's half spider blood in her, so she's got some spider stuff going on.
Parenting is hard enough when they don't have the ability to stick to walls.
Right.
All of these characters are obviously very different.
They look very different.
The worlds are very different.
Tell me more.
Everybody's universe is drawn differently.
Sort of like they were each from a different comic book
drawn by different artists.
Gwen's world looks like Gwen's comics, which have this
beautiful gouache, watercolor, pastel vibe that looks like this.
Oh my gosh, it's amazing.
Her world changes based on her moods.
We visit Miguel's world in 2099 of Nueva York, which is based on
the sort of 70s and 80s Syd Mead drawings of the future,
which have the sort of aspirational quality that also has
a kind of unfinished look to it where you could see the lines under it.
One thing that this film has special about it is that we can
really lean into how each world and each character that comes from that world
can have their own completely unique style and look.
There's 1000 people that are gonna be in the credits of this movie.
-Actually? One thousand? -Yeah, huge crew.
1000 people, this massive crew.
Biggest animation crew ever.
It looks like magic you but what's really happening is like 1000 people
are working super hard for like three years.
We are going to answer some fan questions, but before we pull one.
The big question that everyone has, myself included,
is about the music.
"Sunflower" was such an iconic song and moment for the first film.
Why do you think that the music in this film resonates so much
with the audience?
That "Sunflower" song just took off like a rocket.
The directive was like we want the the music from the movie
to feel like this is stuff that that Miles listens to.
It's Miles' personal soundtrack,
Sure. Right.
So that was our guiding principle for it.
But did Swae Lee know that?
Yeah, yeah, so we're like this is, you know, this is the character and this--
Okay, good.
Who knows what they told Swae?
Whatever it doesn't matter.
We got the demo. This is great.
Let's partner him with Post Malone, we're like, "Awesome."
That's a high bar to clear for this next movie.
So we brought in some reinforcements.
Yeah, this time we're working with Legendary Metro Boomin.
No way!
-Yes way. -True facts.
What? That is so cool.
It's true.
If anybody's gonna be able to make something that feels like
it's Miles' experience that guy knows what he's doing.
So the music's covered for all of those wondering.
And now, magically, you have a container--
You brought that from home?
Yeah, sorry I just--
It just fell from the sky.
Well, we have some fan questions.
Oh, okay, here we go.
As I mentioned before.
Is that the internet?
There it is, this is how the internet works.
The internet--
You type it, it goes on a piece of paper and then it goes into a bucket.
It's like there's a suggestion box somewhere outside of Sony.
Okay, she's drawing one. Here we go.
I have this theory that may explain the image of 2099 Spider-Man
and Miles Morales' Spider-Man fighting each other.
Maybe the Spot is after Miles Morales and Spider-Man 2099
is attacking him because he's trying to protect him from Spot.
-Oh, okay. -Interesting.
Interesting theory.
We don't want anyone's interpretation of art to be delegitimized, so right?
Okay.
So you see what you see.
-But no. -But no.
-There it is. Okay. -There we go.
As an Indian fan of Spider-man, how excited should I be
for the introduction of Earth?
-50101 -50101. Mumbattan.
That's not it, okay.
Is it the little tease of something greater to come,
or just an Easter egg?
By the way, I freaking love your work.
Oh, thank you.
What a great question, especially the last phrase.
It is more than just an Easter egg.
We get to spend some good time in the India world, so it's very cool.
It's the whole last reel.
There's a lot.
-More to come. -Get excited.
That's my advice to you is to get very excited.
Yeah, here we go.
2.5 here we go.
Oh, this is handwritten.
Hailee, two exclamation marks.
So that's not a question, that's just a statement,
Okay. Hailee!
Got it. Got it. Got it.
Is Gwen still jamming with her band in "Across the Spider-Verse"?
Musical note.
There you go.
Beautiful.
-I'm way into this question. -Yes.
She might be jamming with Metro Boomin.
[Laughs]
So...
I don't know what we're talking about. Okay, here we go. This is a good one.
What can Miles and Gwen shippers expect for the upcoming movies?
-Mm? -Oh.
In the comics there's a whole "sitting in a tree" storyline
between Glen and Miles, which was, you know, it invites us
all to imagine that they would make a great couple
but it's complicated, right?
There's a lot in the way.
Long distance relationships are hard.
-It is true. -Okay.
And also across like a different dimension, it makes it extra hard.
That's like the most long distance you can be.
Right.
They sort of always find their way back to each other in some way,
some dimension, some shape and form.
There's a lot of Miles and Gwen and their relationship with each other,
and it evolves.
Sure.
But that's about as far as we should probably say.
So there are about 100 million more questions that were submitted
by fans but I gather we got about as much
information as we're going to get today from the both of you
so thank you so much.
We have one little extra special treat for you.
True, we have a special present for you.
It is your Spider Sona and she's on the screen, right there.
Oh my God, what?
That's you, oh, with your two dogs.
With your two dogs.
-As spider folk. -Are you kidding me?
Tell me I can have that.
-You can have that. -Of course.
-Oh my God. -It's a take-home for you.
We want to thank you fans for tuning in.
The release dates are in the comments.
We'll see you in theaters this summer.