“He was in and out of the picture for a little while because we weren’t sure which elements we were going to stick in this part and which were going to migrate to the next movie,” Lord said.
However, when the writer-producers met Kaluuya, they “realized that he had to be Hobie Brown, no matter the cost.”
“And Hobie had to be in the movie because that personality needed to be part of the story,” Lord continued.
Along with Spider-Punk, “Across the Spider-Verse” introduced such Spider-variants as Jess Drew/Spider-Woman, Miguel O’ Hara/Spider-Man 2099 and Pavitr Prabhakar. Peter B. Parker, Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker and Spider-Ham from “Into the Spider-Verse” also appeared in the sequel.
“Some people were like, ‘Is there a way to simplify this? There’s so many characters. Do we really need Spider-Punk?'” Miller said. “But once we got to know Daniel, we rewrote the part so it became more necessary.”
