It’s Official: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Has Surpassed James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
This year, MCU projects, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as well as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 did exceedingly well at the box office. Moreover, the films have even received good critical reception. But between the two, James Gunn-directed Guardians of the Galaxy has seemingly made a bit more in the worldwide box-office collection.
Despite this, the hype has mostly been around the animated Spider-Man sequel. People seem to have loved it a lot in terms of the animation as well as the plot and the characters. And as it turns out the film was actually able to surpass the domestic box-office collection of the third Guardians film series.
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Surpassed Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 3
There is no doubt that both Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 were some of the highly anticipated films of this year. With MCU fans all over the world awaiting the sequels, it was expected that their reception would be great.
And it was exactly what happened. However, when comparing the two films, it is clear that James Gunn’s Guardians threequel did a slightly better job in terms of worldwide Box-office collection amounting to 839 million dollars compared to Spider-man’s 642 million dollars.
However, the latter has had more impact on the audience, especially the younger generation. And it all boils down to the animation, the plot consisting of multiverse concepts as well as the various spider-people being included along the main story. If not in the International scene, the film is definitely more popular among the domestic audience.
To support this, the domestic box-office collection can be analyzed and compared. As it turns out, the worldwide collection difference, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse surpassed James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 in terms of domestic box-office collection.
A Closer Look at Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
The sequel to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse directed by Peter Ramsey along with two others, Across the Spider-Verse is one of the most loved movies of this year so far. The plot focuses on the protagonist Miles Morales, a high school student who is also Spider-Man, who encounters a new adversary called the Spot.
But he is hardly alone in this fight as the presence of the multiverse allows Gwen Stacy, who is also a Spider-people in her universe, to come forward to help Morales.
Another Spider-person Miguel O’ Hara who initially is an ally ends up having disagreements with Morales. Amid all this, many more Spider-people comes to join him in an epic battle to save the multiverse.
Source: Hollywood Handle
