Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse star Jharrel Jerome has dashed hopes that the highly anticipated third film Beyond the Spider-Verse is releasing anytime soon, saying he hasn’t even recorded lines yet.
Jerome told Decider that production on the presumed finale hasn’t started up yet as a lot of things are “being figured out.” That being said, many didn’t necessarily expect it to come anytime soon given the second film arrived five years after the first in 2023.
“No, I wish,” Jerome said when asked if production had begun. “We haven’t started up yet. A lot of things being figured out, but good things.”
Jerome didn’t have a huge role in the second film but seemingly will in the third as, spoiler warning for Across the Spider-Verse’s finale, he appears set to play its main antagonist. Jerome played Miles G. Morales from Earth-42, a version of Miles who appears at the end of the film not as Spider-Man but the Prowler.
Life for this Miles wasn’t as positive as it was for the series’ protagonist, as the radioactive spider due to bite the former shifted to the latter’s reality and bit him instead. Miles G. Morales therefore didn’t become Spider-Man, and once his universe’s Peter Parker died, New York became ruled by supervillains and he became one too.
The rest of that story, and how it clashes with the main Miles who did become Spider-Man, will likely unfold in Beyond the Spider-Verse, but fans will still be waiting a while before they get to see it.
It isn’t expected until 2026 at the earliest according to Deadline, though as mentioned, keeping pace with the last film’s release would see it released in 2028.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
