Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse directors: ‘This film took 750 years to make’

The trouble with making an animated action movie that wows the critics and wins an Oscar is that then you have to make the next one. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse emerged from the ether without much fuss in 2018 to tell a story that had been rehashed half a dozen times in the previous decade. And maybe it was our jaded attitude to superhero movies in general that made this one seem so special.