But there was a problem.

So, instead, they decided to screen the first 35 minutes.

Its a work in progress with some unfinished animation and sound, the duo clarified.

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Before screening the footage, Lord and Miller made the audience promise something: dont reveal spoilers.

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Instead, the Peter of Miles New York is killed in action.

This Peter and Miles then become partners in crime.

They become unlikely friends and its a little bitKarate Kid.

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Why are there so many Peter Parkers and Spider-Men?

The title has Spider-Verse in it.

The comic book feel is there.

His internal thoughts are rendered in pop-up comic thought panels, and the Boom!

Hey, training to become your worlds successor to Spider-Man is harder than puberty.

And theres humor, glorious humor.

Weve seen the Peter Parker story.

We know it, Persichetti added.

We havent seen the Miles Morales story.

Brian Tyree Henry voices Miles policeman father , and Luna Lauren Velez plays his more nurturing mother.

Though, the cast, as theSpider-Versetitle suggests, is immense.

Maybe we could make some demands, he said.

He added, We just set out to make the most different Spider-Man movie we could.

I def want to play the black Spider-Man one day, Moore said.

I think about my 14, 15-year-old self, I wouldve choked on my popcorn.

Now theres another problem for Lord and Miller.

The movie just does this, Lord said as widened the gap between his hands.