Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie
Ramin Zahed's official companion to Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse offers a thorough, richly illustrated look at what went into making one of the most visually ambitious animated films in recent memory. Miles Morales is back, this time flung across the Multiverse alongside Gwen Stacy and a sprawling ensemble of Spider-People, all squaring up against a villain of genuinely formidable scale. The film is spectacular. The book, happily, does it justice. Packed with exclusive concept art, character designs, early sketches, and storyboards, it lays bare the extraordinary creative labour behind every frame. It's the kind of volume you find yourself lingering over, flipping back through pages you've already seen just to catch something new. Interviews with writers and producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller add real substance, giving readers a candid look at the thinking and decision-making that shaped the sequel to the 2018 Academy Award-winning original. If you loved Into the Spider-Verse and want to understand how its follow-up pushed the visual language even further, this is a genuinely rewarding read, part coffee-table showpiece, part insider account of a production that clearly refused to play it safe.
- Author: Ramin Zahed
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
- Genre: Film & Cinema
- ISBN: 978-1419763991
- Pages: 224 pages