No matter what anyone tells you, you are under no obligation to write King Lear or an emotionally nuanced memoir or any sort of massive creative undertaking while you’re sheltering in place. It seems, however, that Iowa-based filmmaker Tarrell Christie didn’t get that particular memo, and decided to spend his quarantine finishing a project 10 months in the making. As far as we’re concerned, it was time well-spent, because look at this trailer:
You’ll find the 25-minute film at the bottom of this post, and if you’ve got half an hour to spare, it’s well worth a look. In addition to being time well-spent, it’s also money well-spent; in an email to The A.V. Club, Christie says that he “had a crew of only 3 people and a budget of $500, and the challenge of making small-town Iowa look like New York, which ended up taking 200+ VFX shots.”
Honestly, the dream of a live-action Miles Morales (here winningly played by Lakin Mims) alone makes this worth watching, but Christie’s decision to connect it explicitly to the Tobey Maguire-starring Sam Raimi trilogy is no small part of the fun here. It is, in a sense, a piece of dual-level fan fiction: a story about Miles Morales, and a story about a world where those movies were followed by a new franchise centered on this terrific character. And Christie makes the promise of future stories a part of the fun, because yes, there is a post-credits scene.
And hey, as an added draw for Marvel fans—Rocker Racer’s in this thing, too!
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“You’ll find the 25-minute film at the bottom of this post” – You will not, because that would require a smidgen of double-checking one’s work. Here’s the actual link:
lol
Now I feel kinda dumb for watching the trailer 20 times to make the full 25 minutes.
I agree that they don’t check their work here, and it’s irritating. Maybe Shoemaker rightly, yet cynically, just assumed some poster would just dutifully pick up the slack. You’ve been duped, it what I’m saying! Duped! HAHAHAHAHAHA! It was their evil plan ALL ALONG!
I refuse to tweet, but someone should tweet her about this at least. Hey dummy, come finish your homework.https://twitter.com/allisonshoe
You’ve posted the same thing twice.
I’d say it was impressive, particularly given the budget, but I wouldn’t really call it good.
You’d think people would get around the “We gotta kill off Peter Parker to introduce Miles” thing by now. They’ve both been active in the 616 setting for years (even though Miles was originally a dimensional transplant from the Ultimate universe where he did replace a dead teen Peter Parker until the entire Marvel multiverse got destroyed and recreated). There isn’t even that much overlap since adult Peter has adult problems to deal with while Miles covers the whole high school kid superhero arena.
Eight fucking hours of this egregious goddamn error still being a part of this article more than reinforces my theory that the ‘writers’ here have no idea this site even exists. They must submit their stories into one of those old-timey series of vacuum tubes and never think of them again.