Your Animated Spider-Man Is ‘Dope’ Star Shameik Moore
We already met a newSpider-Manin the Marvel Cinematic Universe’sCaptain America: Civil War, with Tom Holland suited up as the webslinger. But Sony Pictures also wants to give fans a version of the wallcrawler that they’ve wanted to see on the big screen for a long time.
An animatedSpider-Manmovie has been in development at Sony Pictures for a little while now, and this version of the Marvel superhero will focus on Miles Morales, a popular incarnation of the webhead who was introduced to fans in 2011 and whose secret identity is a half-black, half-Latino high schooler. Now Sony has finally hired someone to voice this version of Spider-Man, and it’sDopeandThe Get DownstarShameik Moore.
You may not know Shameik Moore by name, but that’s because he’s an up-and-coming talent who made his breakthrough performance in the Sundance selected indieDope, whichyou can watch on Netflix right now. Since then, he’s starred in Netflix’s seriesThe Get Downfrom Baz Luhrmann. A couple years ago, we hoped that Shameik Moorewould be considered for the roleof Spider-Man when the character was being cast forCaptain America: Civil War, but Marvel Studios ended up going with the Peter Parker version of Spidey again.
In addition to finding the lead for the animated Spider-Man movie cast,The Hollywood Reporteralso reveals thatX-Men Origins: WolverineandRay DonovanstarLiev Schreiberhas landed a role in the untitled Spider-Man movie as the villain. Unfortunately, they don’t indicate which villain he will be playing, but he would make a great Kraven (a big game hunter who sets his sights on Spider-Man), a villain we haven’t seen on the big screen yet.
It was the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man that fans hoped Donald Glover would play when it was announced that the series was being rebooted the first time around, though that role ended up going to Andrew Garfield. Instead, he ended up voicing the character in Disney XD’sUltimate Spider-Mananimated series, which left him out of the running for the animated feature, likely to avoid confusion.
The untitled animatedSpider-Manmovie will be co-directed byThe Little PrincehelmerBob Persichettialong withRise of the GuardiansfilmmakerPeter Ramsey. The script comes fromPhil Lord, who is also executive producing with his creative partner andThe LEGO Movieco-directorChris Miller.
The untitled Spider-Man movie is slated to arrive onDecember 21, 2018.
