


Stay up to date on that movie, and other films on the horizon, with our guide to Upcoming 2023 movies, which we refresh often.Like any film critic - or perhaps like Bill Maher, hopefully with more tact and better timing - I have done my fair share of obnoxious ranting against a Hollywood culture that finds its most popular expression in the exploits of comic-book superheroes. Miller: Instead of the fact that his uncle smelled delicious.Īt the time of the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, John Mulaney shared ideas that he had for a Spider-Ham spinoff, and while they haven’t happened yet, we do know that we will be more Multiversal action as the third part of this trilogy, Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse, will be in theaters in March 2024. Lord: That was added because it needed to be not just like a punchline.

And that moment ended up being him saying, ‘You can’t always save everybody. What the audience really wanted from him is to be real for just one moment.Ĭhris Miller: Yes. Phil Lord: Funny enough, that character didn't… Spider-Ham, his scores were a little bit depressed, for a character that was getting a lot of laughs. While Chris Miller still was pushing to keep the bacon line in the movie’s final cut, it was feedback from the test screenings that convinced the duo to alter the line from something funny to something inspirational. Yes, we can understand how what basically amounts to a cannibalism joke in a Spider-Man movie might be too much for parents to explain to their children. But everyone was like, ‘It's killing the mood!’ Phil Lord: He talked about how he had a relative that had been turned into bacon. When everyone was saying about how they lost their uncle or their dad, and he said…

Chris Miller: What was the line that wasn't R-rated, but that was, it sort of killed the mood? But it was in the movie for a long time.
