Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has done very well for itself, bringing in strong profits and high praise from both critics and viewers. It’s done so well, in fact, that both a sequel and a spin-off are currently in planning stages. The film featured a post-credits scene in which another Spider-Man, Miguel O’Hara AKA Spider-Man 2099, used a special device to travel through time and space to recruit Spider-Men for an unknown purpose (and ended up in a silly confrontation with the Spider-Man from the 60s animated show).
More Spiders will definitely appear in a sequel, but fans have been vocal about one Spider-Man in particular: the Spider-Man of the 1978 Japanese live-action show. Not only does this Spider-Man, Takuya Yamashiro, have a completely different origin of his powers, he also controls a giant robot named Leopardon. Fans of this esoteric Spider requested his presence in the sequel to the producer and co-writer of Into the Spider-Verse, Phil Lord, on Twitter. Lord responded that he would include Yamashiro in the sequel, but only if Into the Spider-Verse can generate a box office profit of over $200 million.
Lord was likely half-joking about this; the film’s profits are currently around $103.6 million, only half of Lord’s target, so he’s probably not expecting the profits to actually reach that height in their remaining theater time (though he would probably like them to). Still, if nothing else, Lord is definitely aware of the Japanese Spider-Man, and if he is paying attention to fan demand, the robot-piloting hero’s inclusion is not impossible.
