Miles Morales, future Oscar winner?
(“Bob was sleeping,” Rothman said with a laugh.
“He’s so cool he slept through his own Oscar nomination.")
Credit: Sony Pictures Animation
In the month since the movie came out, what has it been like to watch that reaction unfold?
PETER RAMSEY: It’s been overwhelming.
I think one of the most gratifying and unexpected things is just the overwhelming emotion people have.
They’re just exploding.
I think it’s something about the story being about connection and finding yourself.
It’s so much about that, and I’m kind of staggered by it.
It’s a total surprise.
There’s been a huge movement of people making art inspired by our movie.
PERSICHETTI:And with their own identity attached to it!
PERSICHETTI: The Spidersonas, exactly!
RAMSEY:I think that people also react emotionally to the creative aspect of the movie.
That was something that I feel like we all locked arms on.
It was a really weird creative experience where everybody builds on each other’s work and it becomes exponential.
What does it mean to you guys to see a superhero movie get Academy Awards attention?
It doesn’t fall into one category.
It just feels like it’s a time to recognize that.
There’s been a lot of talk about aSpider-Versesequel and a potential spin-off movie.
ROTHMAN: I mean, it’s a multiverse, so…
PERSICHETTI: There are no corners.
[Laughs]
ROTHMAN: Anything’s possible.
And then the last seven or eight weeks have been pretty intense and overwhelming.
How do you make one that feels fresh?
Were there touchstones or guidelines that you focused on to double-check this movie felt unique?
But our instinct was, how do we get the audience to love Miles?
How do we make Miles' story as fresh and as relevant and involving as possible?
PERSICHETTI: Yeah, and in our medium, you’re building entire worlds.
[Characters] that amplify Miles or Peter or Spider-Man, for that matter.
ROTHMAN: It’s just a cool challenge.
So you have to find a new way, which can be scary.
There aren’t a lot of opportunities out there to do that, so we were lucky.
ROTHMAN: Although some people said no.
PERSICHETTI: You know what I’m going to say.
They’re in the graffiti scenes, every single one of them.
So that’s an Easter egg that’s only for myself and my family.
It’s sort of a visual apology for being absent.
[Laughs]
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