Daniel Kaluuya didn’t return for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and he’s been on the down low since Jordan Peele’s Nope and winning an Oscar for Judas and the Black Messiah. Well, now we know something he’s been working on and it’s pretty cool. Deadline reports Kaluuya is writing a Spider-Punk animated movie, centered on the popular character he voiced in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and will again in Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.
Details on the Spider-Punk film are light for now. Kaluuya would presumably return to the role of Hobie Brown aka Spider-Punk, a more anarchistic version of Spider-Man from Earth-138. The character was created by writer Dan Slott and artist Olivier Coipel.
The screenplay is being written by Kaluuya alongside Ajon Sighn, who recently wrote the upcoming Robert Pattinson crime film Primetime for A24.
Spider-Punk emerged as one of the breakout characters from Across the Spider-Verse, because he’s such a polar opposite to Miles Morales and Peter Parker. He wants nothing more than to see establishments crumble, and that could be what is explored in the movie.
This wouldn’t be Kaluuya’s first feature screenwriting credit, either. He previously co-wrote and co-directed the British action film The Kitchen, released by Netflix last year.
