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Spider-Punk is one of the very coolest characters from the Spider-Verse animated franchise, and now he's getting his own spin-off movie co-written by Daniel Kaluuya, who voiced the character in 2023's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and is scheduled to return for the impending Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse threequel (via Deadline).
Not much else is known about the planned Spider-Punk animated movie, which will be co-written by Kaluuya and screenwriter Ajon Singh. It's easy to assume that Kaluuya, a prolific film and TV actor who had an MCU turn as W'Kabi in Black Panther, will also reprise his role as the voice of Spider-Punk in the new film, though even that remains technically unconfirmed.
In his previous Spider-Verse appearance, Spider-Punk winds up being one of the coolest and most kick-ass spider-heroes of the whole film, stealing all of his scenes with his devil-may-care attitude and his punk rock guitar skills.
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The comic version of Spider-Punk is quite similar, though he's from New York instead of England. In his reality (Earth-138, a reference to the song 'We Are 138' by The Misfits), Spider-Punk's arch-enemy is President Norman Osborne, better known as the classic Spider-Man villain the Green Goblin.
He's also not Peter Parker, but actually Hobie Brown, better known in Marvel Comics continuity as the original Prowler, a character who Spider-Verse fans know plays a major role in the story, though he's portrayed as the Aaron Davis, the Prowler of Marvel's original Ultimate Universe.
Spider-Punk was originally created by writer Dan Slott and artist Olivier Coipel based on a design originated first by Coipel, which inspired Slott to include the character in the original Spider-Verse comic crossover.
I've been Newsarama's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic book historian since 2011, and now I'm the Entertainment Writer at GamesRadar+. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitarist of many heavy riffs. (They/Them)
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