Looks like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel is getting shaped up pretty quickly. Just a few weeks back, the creators of the franchise announced that they are bringing in Spider-Man from the ’90s popular animated series, voiced by Christopher Daniel Barnes in the second installment. And now, we have learnt that Issa Rae, the famed American Youtuber and actress Joined the voice cast of the same as Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman, in addition to Hailee Steinfeld’s Gwen Stacy who’s known as Spider-Gwen.
Issa Rae will join hands with the cast from the first ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ movie, Shameik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld who are returning to reprise their roles of Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen in the second installment. Issa Rae is currently occupied with production of B. J. Novak’s upcoming horror thriller Vengeance and the fifth season of HBO’s Insecure.
Those who are not familiar with the character of Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman, it was created by Archie Goodwin and Marie Severin for Marvel comics and debuted in 1977. Jessica Drew developed superhuman powers patterned after several types of spiders when she was born, after her mother who was pregnant with her, was struck with a beam of radiation containing the DNA of several different types of spiders. Jessica is superhumanly strong and has an ability to lift upto seven tons. Jessica also possesses superhuman hearing and smell with extreme immunity from injuries. She also debuted in the comic book event ‘Spider-Verse’ in 2014 and that’s the reason, the makers of the second installment of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse are interested in including her in the latest superhero roster.
We’ve also learnt that more characters from other Spider-Man universes are set to join and talks for many of these are still ongoing. From all these reports, one thing is evident that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel will feature a lot from the history of Spider-Man adaptation.
As we know, the first installment of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which has won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, revolves around Miles Morales character, surrounded by different versions of Spider-Man all coming into his world from different universes.
Now, as it’s still a long way to go for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse to release as it is set to go live on 7th October, 2022, we can expect more Spider-Verse character inclusion news along the way to make the voice cast more interesting and refreshing.
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