‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ and How a Scene Crawled to Life | Anatomy of a Scene

If you’ve seen a “Spider-Man” origin movie (there are plenty to choose from), you’ll know the scene. Boy meets spider. Spider bites boy. Boy becomes Spider-Man. But in the animated and Oscar-nominated hyperactive fantasia that is “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” the radioactive eight-legged creature is bouncing to a little more “Wild Style”-era hip-hop than in versions past. The directors Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman talked about injecting a familiar sequence with new energy while p