
So on the first page of the first draft of his script, Lord wrote out a mission statement for the film, proclaiming that if anyone can identify with Spider-Man, then anyone could be the character, too. “What if he’s just one of us? That to me seems really powerful.” “That’s, like, Stan Lee’s idea,” he added, referring to Spider-Man’s beloved co-creator, who died last month. I started wondering if it was about, yeah, anybody can identify with this character, because you don’t see his face.” There’s a lot of Spider-Man stuff here in this Central American market. “And then they always have a Spider-Man one. “There’s all of these shops that have, like, Mexican wrestling masks,” Lord said. It was around this time that Lord was shopping along Olvera Street, the historic Mexican marketplace in downtown Los Angeles. “We were like, Why make this movie?” said Miller.

But the duo still needed to answer a fundamental question for themselves. When Sony agreed, Lord and Miller, somewhat to their surprise, signed on to produce the film, with Lord writing the script. “We thought, Well, if they let us do a Miles Morales story, that would feel like something new,” Miller told BuzzFeed News earlier this month.
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Marvel Comics had only just introduced Miles - a teenager from Brooklyn with a black father and a mother from Puerto Rico - as a brand-new Spider-Man in 2011, but there was already a steady drumbeat for a Miles movie resonating across the internet. Then there was the prospect of getting to make the first movie about Miles Morales.
