While frequent major overhauls are standard operating procedure in animation (Pixar films can take between four and seven years to plot, animate, and render), those changes typically occur early on during development and storyboarding stages. Four of these crew members agreed to speak pseudonymously about the sprint to finish the movie three years into the sequel’s development and production, a period whose franticness they attribute to Lord’s management style - in particular, his seeming inability to conceptualize 3-D animation during the early planning stages and his preference to edit fully rendered work instead. Multiple Across the Spider-Verse crew members - ranging from artists to production executives who have worked anywhere from five to a dozen years in the animation business - describe the process of making the the $150 million Sony project as uniquely arduous, involving a relentless kind of revisionism that compelled approximately 100 artists to flee the movie before its completion. One that seems to have inspired Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, causing fans and critics to wonder, Why don’t more animated movies look this good?Īccording to people who worked on the sequel, Across the Spider-Verse, it’s because the working conditions required to produce such artistry are not sustainable. Movie - Sony Pictures Animation has cut through the cultural clutter with Lord and Miller’s revolutionary style. While Pixar and Disney Animation suffer in box-office slumps - losing out to Dreamworks’ surprise hit Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Illumination Entertainment’s top-grossing The Super Mario Bros.
(The duo have succeeded in live-action fare too - see 21 and 22 Jump Street - though they were fired mid-movie from the stand-alone Star Wars prequel Solo.) But it’s their work on the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse that set a new bar for the animation industry, borrowing from vintage comic-books, psychedelia, and street art to create a novel visual language for not just superhero films but computer-animated work generally.
Over the past decade, Phil Lord and Chris Miller - and in Hollywood, they are always referred to as Lord and Miller never Miller and Lord - have distinguished themselves as the critically acclaimed writer-director-producers behind animated crowd-pleasers like their breakthrough Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and the billion-dollar Lego Movie franchise.
Four Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse crew members say unsustainable working conditions are behind the success of the animated film.
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