Unfortunately,Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse’s repeated delays might make it harder for Miles Morales to reach his fullMarvelmovie potential anytime soon.Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s groundbreaking visual style and story put Miles Morales and other Spider-People on the map for mass audiences - such impact reflected inSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s box office, which almost doubled the first movie’s box office. Naturally, expectations are quite high for the third installment,Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Versewas originally slated to release in late 2024, but the film was delayed soon after its first release date was announced. As of early 2025,Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Versedoesn’t have a release date yet, though a late 2026 or an early 2027 release sounds possible, asSpider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verseis in production. Still, a five-year wait betweenSpider-Man: Beyond the Spider-VerseandSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verseand the ten-year wait between the trilogy’s first and third installments is quite a long time for Miles Morales’ story to be told in cinemas.
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Miles Morales' Street-Level Stories May Take A While To Hit The Big Screen
TheSpider-Versemovies’ approach to the multiverse has been groundbreaking, and their animation has been so popular that it has inspired many other projects’ visual style. TheSpider-Versetrilogy’s strengths are now synonymous with Miles Morales, who became the central anomaly of aSpider-Versethat connects to the wider Marvel multiverse, including the MCU’s known timelines. However,Miles Morales’ street-level stories have taken a backseatas a result, and it may take a while for Marvel to adapt them to the big screen.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verseoffers a story potentially as big in scope as the MCU’sAvengers: DoomsdayorAvengers: Secret Wars
In 2026 or 2027 at the earliest, Miles Morales will face his biggest multiversal challenge to date. As teased bySpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s cliffhanger ending, Earth-1610’s Miles has to escape from Earth-42’s Miles and reunite with the Spider-Society’s defectors before it’s too late to stop the rampaging Spot. Add a vengeful Spider-Man 2099 to the mix, andSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verseoffers a story potentially as big in scope as the MCU’sAvengers: DoomsdayorAvengers: Secret Warsaround the same time Phase 6’s final team-up movies come out.
It’s Essentially Impossible For Us To Get A Street-Level Miles Morales Spider-Man Story Before Beyond The Spider-Verse Releases
Sony Needs To Finish The Spider-Verse Trilogy Before Moving On To New Miles Morales Stories
Miles Morales’ few street-level fights in theSpider-Versetrilogy show how well a fully grounded Miles movie would work, both in animation and live-action. Unfortunately,if Sony wanted to continue Miles’ story after his multiversal conflict ends, a street-levelSpider-Versesequel would have to wait around ten years, if the previous movies’ production is anything to go by. The studio and the filmmakers could also wait a little longer in order to make it clear that theSpider-Versetrilogy’s multiversal plot has concluded.
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It’s still unknown when Miles Morales might debut in the MCU, but Kevin Feige’s comments now tie the date to Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.
A different version of Miles Morales could be introduced in the MCU in the meantime. While theSpider-Verse’s animated Miles stars in a multiversal trilogy,the MCU’s live-action Miles Morales could star in his own series of street-level movies, which would also contrast with Peter Parker’s larger-than-life battles alongside the Avengers and his multiversal variants. However, the MCU is deep into the Multiverse Saga, and the earliest a grounded Miles-centered live-action MCU movie could release would probably be after 2027’sAvengers: Secret Wars.
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Sony’s animatedSpider-Versetrilogy will probably end with a conclusive third installment. Shameik Moore’s Miles Morales and his friends could continue their journey in a future movie sequel or their own animated spin-offs, or they could simply resume their adventures in their respective universes off-screen. Regardless,theSpider-Versemovies already proved Miles’ potential as a Marvel movie protagonist, which could help him make his live-action debut sooner.
Miles Morales was introduced in Marvel Comics' Earth-1610, and he was later transported to the main timeline, Earth-616.
Though it may take a while, Miles could easily be the next big-screen Spider-Man for a new generation. Instead of a fourth live-action movie Peter Parker after a possible MCU reboot, Miles Morales could star in one or more MCU film trilogies that capture the character’s qualities from theSpider-Versemovies. Miles’ popularity in the animated films is the clearest indicator that he could be the MCU’s next star, and both Sony and Marvel could benefit greatly from his jump from animation to live action on the big screen.
