Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, & Justin K. Thompson, 6/2/23) Movie • Page 35

Starting to think they were fired from Solo for a reason

 

Not to downplay Lord and Miller’s shittiness, but that seems like a little too cynical big brain take. I could absolutely see how they saw it as a great PR narrative to spin. But I would be surprised if it came down to that.

 

As a TAG member myself, this seems really shady

Create a separate independent vendor to do most of the manual labor on your "union" project, huh Sony

Most smaller projects ship the actual animation overseas, I guess this is the equivalent. No wonder they kept the budget down for this (compared to Disney and Pixar)

 

Apparently there are slightly different edits of the movie out in theaters.

 

Whyyyyyyyyyyy

 

What does that mean? What are the differences?

 

The example they have shows the character point at Miguel in one and take a selfie with a bunny filter in another. Beyond that, I have no idea.

 

I assume it’s just small Easter eggs like that. Not like a wild change in narrative.

 

Insane to me that Sony has learned nothing from the email leaks and the “Sausage Party” debacle when it comes to treating animators right. I guess when you’re openly shameless as Pascal is, you don’t have to worry about accountability.

 

Titmouse Canada unionized under TAG, sure would be something if Imageworks decided to pull off something similar right as production on Beyond ramps up...!

Going by one of the accounts in that article, it sounds like they rely on foreign workers with Canadian visas that need the job to stay in the country. Reminds me of the Elon Twitter takeover thing. Reeeeeeally shady

 

Damn really lmao

Gusano and Miller

 

lol shit, what.

 

Bummer but not surprising considering how good this thing looks and it costing half as much as a Pixar movie.

Sony sure does love crunch

 

man this is a bummer.

 

I hope Lord and Miller address this and take accountability instead of pulling a Damon Lindelof and go from being extremely online to “Whoops! I got caught treating my staff poorly! Time to go offline until this blows over!” I assume they have to in order to do press for “Beyond.”

Also, just basing off how long “Across” took, who in their right mind on the creative staff thought it was gonna be ready for 2024? I have to think with this piece, they’re gonna have to re-evaluate everything and delay for 2025/26. But once again, it’s Sony and they have a history of sweeping things under the rug.

 

This ruled!

 

V cool to end on a cliffhanger, I don’t think my kids are used to that at all.

 

I didn't get that scene and now I feel robbed.

 

Now the question is, which version will make it to streamers

 

Hell yeah I got miles riding the horse that was fun

 

Honestly don’t remember if I had that scene in my theater or not

 

I definitely didn’t, either time, which makes sense because I saw it at the same theater

 

I saw the movie twice in 2 different theaters (both an AMC and a Regal) and I can't remember if i saw that scene