Cover News Reporter Yang Fan
In January 2019, with the box office success of "Spider-Man: Into the Parallel Universe", Sony Pictures also confirmed that it would produce the second episode. At this time, many netizens called for the sequel to let Japanese Spider-Man join the battle.
and executive producer Phil Rhodes also promised at the time that as long as the box office exceeded $200 million, he would honor it. In the end, the film surpassed 375 million U.S. dollars at the global box office and won the Oscar for best animated feature film.
Recently, "Spider-Man: Into the Parallel Universe 2" was announced on April 8, 2022. Producer Phil Rhodes confirmed when answering questions from netizens on Twitter that the sequel will include Japanese Spider-Man.
"Japanese Spider-Man" (Superman) is a special drama series broadcast on TV Tokyo from May 17, 1978 to March 14, 1979, with 41 episodes in total (two episodes were added during the first broadcast). At that time, Toei applied for the copyright of the characters from the American Marvel Comics.
In Stan Lee's view, Japanese Spider-Man is also his child. In addition to using Marvel's authorization, this special drama series also added Toei's original stories and settings, and let him sit on the giant robot "Le Oberton" to fight. From then on, the plot mode of "the hero sits on the robot and fights against the huge monster" has been inherited into the future super team series.
