Miles Morales may be making his first connection with the MCU as teased by the producers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) which is set to release on October 7, 2022.
Speaking recently on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller hinted that Spider-Man No Way Home (2021) could have opened the Multiversal door for Miles Morales to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
“The Multiverse is big and wide and all things grow… Why would you think [that in] a Multiverse, in which many things are possible, that [those things are] not related?”
The first Miles Morales animated movie had Wilson Fisk/Kingpin activate the particle accelerator in an attempt to bring back his wife and child from the dead, but in the process, brought several versions of Spider-Man and caused some dimensional chaos to ensue.
This allowed odd versions of Spider-Man to be seen, such as Spider-Ham (John Mulaney), Spider-Noir (Nicholas Cage), and Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn). These variants of Spider-Man were a lot of fun, but now Spider-Man fans have seen multiple versions of the character simultaneously again thanks to No Way Home.
Across the Spider-Verse has confirmed that Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac) will have a role in the film as the teaser trailer shows Miles being thrown through several dimensions by the futuristic web-slinger. As Into the Spider-Verse teased several different Spider-Men, it would be very easy for Holland to make an appearance and interact with Miles Morales. This would leave the animated movie to be treated the same way as Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy and Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man 1 & 2 are now associated with the MCU.
It is, however, important to note that Holland has not been confirmed for any future Marvel projects at this time and has, in fact, laughed off rumors of another MCU trilogy.
Sony has been pushing a lot of their projects to have some connections with the MCU recently. Venom recently had a tie-in with its sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) showing Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock/Venom being pulled into the MCU and seeing Tom Holland’s Spider-Man.
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Morbius (2022) also seems to also have connections with Spider-Man, as a poster of the web-slinger can be seen behind Jared Leto’s Michael Morbius as he walks down the street in a trailer for the film.
In theory, it wouldn’t be wildly far-fetched for Holland to appear, as the actor himself has stated that he hoped to be a part of the animated sequel. Though, again, nothing has been confirmed. It would, however, be amazing to see the two characters interact — especially after Jaimie Foxx’s Electro tells Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man in No Way Home that he wished there was a “Black Spider-Man,” effectively teasing Morales.
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Bear in mind that there are no reports of Morales appearing in a live-action MCU project at this time.
Tom Holland’s climactic third film is an action-packed tragedy. Here’s the official synopsis for the film:
For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.
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