‘Across the Spider-Verse’: How Daniel Kaluuya’s ‘Cool and Controlled’ Vibe Helped Animators Create Spider-Punk (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” created over 240 unique characters who feature across the six different universes in the film, but Daniel Kaluuya‘s Hobart “Hobie” Brown (aka Spider-Punk) was one of the last characters production designer Patrick O’Keefe and head of character Alan Hawkins dove into.
Speaking with Variety, Hawkins says the character went through a lot of design tests. “Those tests were educational in that they didn’t work, and we learned about how not to do them.” After that, the character was put on the shelf while the animators refined his design.
Writers and producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller revealed in an interview with EW that the anarchic, anti-establishment superhero was nearly cut from the film.
But Spider-Punk came together once Kaluuya came on board. “You’d think the punk character would be agitating, big and boisterous, but the more time we spent with him and saw reads from Daniel, we saw that wasn’t his vibe at all.
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