According to Miller, there is a year and four months between Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse. Miller didn't give any reasoning behind this specific timing, but fans on Twitter are speculating as to what it could mean.
For anyone who needs a refresher, the film takes place a year after the events of Into the Spider-Verse. Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) once again needs to traverse the multiverse to help Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) defeat supervillain the Spot (played by Jason Schwartzman).
Across the Spider-Verse picks up around a year after the events of Into the Spider-Verse, with Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) staying busy on her home world of Earth-65 trying to keep her dad, Captain George Stacy (Shea Wigham), and the rest of the New York police force from figuring out that she's Spider-Woman.
How long is the timeskip in Across the Spider-Verse?
Before the release of Into the Spider-Verse sequel, producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller confirmed that Across the Spider-Verse would take place a year and four months after the first movie. This time jump was confirmed in Across the Spider-Verse.
It's still plausible that Miles was 13 years old in Into the Spider-Verse and a freshman student at Visions if his birthday was between December and March. So if he's a sophomore, Miles was, at minimum, 15 years old in Across the Spider-Verse, which also meant, at minimum, Gwen would be 16 years and three months old.
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How old is Pavitr Prabhakar in Across the Spider-Verse?
↑ In Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse The Official Movie Special Book it mentions Pavitr being a few years younger than Miles who is 15 in Across the Spider-Verse. So it is safe to assume that Pavitr is no less younger than 13 since he attends Mumbattan Visions Academy and no older than 14.
Hailey Cooper is a recurring original supporting character in Marvel's Spider-Man series, first appeared in Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. As of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, she becomes Miles Morales' love interest.
He has short black hair with thick eyebrows. By the time of Spider-Man 2, Miles has reached a height of 5'10½"; this is evident from one of his dialogues that state him as being taller than Peter "by at least half an inch" when one of the Hunters refer to him as "the little one".
Since Miles and Peni are the same age in the first movie, both being 13, it can be assumed that in the sequel she is the same age as Miles, who is now 15. However, due to placement of birthdays within a year, it is possible she is only 14 instead.
Johnathon Ohnn, better known as The Spot, is the main antagonist of Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Verse film trilogy. He was once a scientist at Alchemax who transported a radioactive spider from Earth-42 to Earth-1610B using Kingpin's Super-Collider, causing it to bite Miles Morales and turn him into Spider-Man.
Why did Across the Spider-Verse end on a cliffhanger?
Given that Beyond the Spider-Verse will premier not too long after Across the Spider-Verse, the Miles Morales cliffhanger works as a tease for what is to come. If Beyond the Spider-Verse were to take another three or four years to be made, such a massive cliffhanger would not have worked.
However, in the time between films, Parker had a daughter, Mayday, with Mary Jane Watson (Zoë Kravitz). In concept art from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Mayday appears to be a year old, so at least two years had to have passed between the two films for this to be possible.
Why did it take so long for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?
Across the Spider-Verse was meant to debut in theaters in April of 2022, before it was postponed to October of that year and then June 2023 owing to what Entertainment Weekly reported as “pandemic-related delays.” However, the four crew members say animators who were hired in the spring of 2021 sat idle for anywhere ...
The threequel was taken off the Sony release schedule in July 2023 and while we don't know when it'll swing into cinemas, we do know that work is underway on the threequel, thanks to an update in late March 2024 from Brian Tyree Henry.
Tom Holland's Spider-Man is only referenced in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, with other versions of the character taking the spotlight. The absence of Holland's Spider-Man is likely a conscious decision by the producers, rather than a contractual or legal issue.
That said, many clues point to an approximate age. Miles was likely about 14 years old during the events of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse based on the fact that he was starting a new high school and not only was he transitioning into becoming a superhero, but he was also at a transitional period in his life.
The Chase of Miles Morales was an event that took place after Wilson Fisk, also known as Kingpin, ordered Prowler to kill Miles Morales, who witnessed him killing Spider-Man.
Like Peter Parker, one of these spiders bites Miles, and he ends up gaining spider-like powers the same as Peter had. Excited by this, Miles makes his own Spider-Man costume, which is black and red and hustles Peter into his dormitory to tell him the secret.
Gwen Stacy—the Spider-Gwen/Ghost-Spider version, at least—was 19 when she was intoduced, and at the end of Spider-Gwen (Vol. 2) she spent a year in prison, making her ~20 to 21 years old currently…
Earth-42 is a universe where no Spider-People exist and crime plagued New York City. This universe had a quick appearance in the second film, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. It will appear once again in the Spider-Verse trilogy's third and final film Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.
In the interim, Miles developed a strong crush on Hailey but found himself unable to ask her out on a date, largely due to his many commitments as Spider-Man in defending New York.
The character saves Mary Jane Watson during an invasion of the Marvel Zombies after Arcadia's Loki had fired at the part of the Shield that was closest to Arcadia. On Earth-8, Spider-Gwen is married to Miles Morales and is the mother of Charlotte and Max Morales, both of whom also have Spider Powers.
