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Beyond the Spider-Verse will take inspiration from The Parent Trap

Lucy-Jo Finnighan
Across the spider-verse Miles MoralesSony Pictures

Beyond the Spider-Verse is no doubt going to have some twists and turns, but it will also have a trap…a parent trap.

The Spider-Verse movies are considered by many to be the best Spider-Man films of all time, and we’d find it hard to disagree. Across the Spider-Verse built upon the groundwork that Into the Spider-Verse laid, and now a third movie is on the way.

To say that people are excited for the trilogy’s final instalment, Beyond the Spider-Verse, would be an understatement. And with every piece of news, the hype only grows.

Now, we’ve gotten a brand new morsel of information, which involves Miles Morales, his multi-verse counterpart, and an old Disney movie.

Miles Morales will lay a Parent Trap in Beyond the Spider-Verse

The ending of Across the Spider-Verse left Miles in a precarious situation, having found himself in the wrong dimension, with an alternate, seemingly villainous version of himself.

No doubt this was going to play into the third movie, and now we’ve gotten more details of that from the franchise’s creators. Producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord and director Joaquim Dos Santos recently spoke to Empire about their original and current ideas for the upcoming film.

Dos Santos stated that “there were some emotional touchstones resonating early on” and even brought up the early concept of “a Prince and the Pauper take:” for Miles and his multi-verse twin.

Miller added that “It was more about the alternate Miles. Basically, the thing that is now the very, very end of the movie was the bulk of the original concept.”

The pair then revealed that originally “there were some Parent Trap elements” within the story. As said by Miller, “Basically, that ended up becoming the second half of the movie, which then ended up becoming mostly the third movie.”

For those who aren’t familiar with The Parent Trap, the plot of the 1998 movie is as thus: “Twins Annie and Hallie are strangers until happenstance unites them. The preteen girls’ divorced parents, Nick and Elizabeth, are living on opposite sides of the Atlantic, each with one child. After meeting at camp, American Hallie and British-raised Annie engineer an identity swap, giving both the chance to spend time with the parent they’ve missed. If the scheme works, it might just make the family whole again.”

Considering that both Miles are identical, naturally this offers a lot of Parent Trap possibilities. But we’ll have to see if the pair can get over their initial animosity first, or if Prowler Miles is even a villain at all.

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