Phil Lord and Chris Miller have a long records in animation, and even if they are now best known for films subsequent to Cloudy subsequent to A fortuitous Of Meatballs and The LEGO Movie, it was subsequent to the cult television series Clone high that they got their start. Obviously they've arrive a long showing off past they, but they completely haven't forgotten their roots, as evidenced by the special Easter eggs that they included in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse:
It was because of Clone high that I first became a enthusiast of Phil Lord and Chris Miller, hence I was delighted subsequent to it came happening in conversation subsequent to I sat by the side of subsequent to them a few weeks ago at the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Los Angeles press day. Knowing that there were many little hidden details featured all throughout the film, I asked if they had any particular favorites. After acknowledging the special response to writer Brian Michael Bendis and performer Sara Pichelli -- the creators of Miles Morales -- the duo made special suggestion of the references support to their first television show.
Clone high -- which was an energetic series subsequent to the high educational adventures of the clones of historical icons -- and no-one else lasted one season, never seeing its main characters graduate, but Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse has a special callback to an institute of later learning from that series. Specifically, there is a commercial for Clone College, featuring the visage of Abraham Lincoln (voiced by Will Forte in the show), located in become old Square.
But that's not all. One of the strange trademarks of Clone high is that it had either a dolphin or a dolphin solid in all episode, and Phil Lord and Chris Miller have kept that tradition going during their movie career. all of their movies, both energetic and live-action, have included the solid of a dolphin, and that includes Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (even even if they didn't actually tackle it). It's not immediately noticeable, as I actually didn't catch it during my first viewing of the feature, but according to the writers/producers it can be heard during all of the earsplitting chaos in the huge climactic third charge battle sequence.
The Clone high references are understandably close to the hearts of Phil Lord and Chris Miller, but they completely aren't the and no-one else ones featured in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. As we've written about, there are feign Seth Rogen and Edgar Wright movies that are advertised -- titles support Your Horses and From Dusk Till Shaun -- and if you pay attention you'll broadcast that the number 42 appears a lot, which is a number important in the records of Marvel Comics, but furthermore itself a suggestion to A Hitchhikers guide To The Galaxy. Hell, if you see at the television visceral watched by Uncle Aaron subsequent to he is introduced you'll broadcast he is watching Donald Glover on an episode of Community, which was a huge source of inspiration for the foundation of Miles Morales.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is a film that is going to be immensely rewarding subsequent to watched beyond and beyond again, as there are tiny, special little details littered throughout that you're not paying attention to as much even if you're maddening to follow the plot. It's a little other special in that way, on beyond just visceral a essentially phenomenal experience.
Starring Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, and Hailee Steinfeld, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is in theaters everywhere now.