Dope’s Shameik Moore Cast as Miles Morales!

The big screen has a new Spider-Man! The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Shameik Moore, star of The Get Down and Dope, is set to voice the lead in Sony Pictures Animation‘s upcoming animated Spider-Man movie.
While Tom Holland will continue to play the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s live-action Peter Parker, Shameik Moore will play a version of Spidey based on the Miles Morales character. Also joining the cast is Liev Schreiber as a mystery villain.

Created by Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli, Miles Morales was originally an inhabitant of Marvel’s Ultimate universe that existed between 2001 and 2015 as a parallel timeline reboot of Marvel continuity. Morales didn’t appear until Ultimate Fallout #4 in 2011, however, following the death of the Ultimate Peter Parker. The character has some of the same powers as the original Spider-Man, but he is also capable of briefly turning invisible and even a venom sting that can paralyze his foes. In the wake of Marvel’s 2015 Secret Wars event, Miles Morales was brought over to the central Marvel Universe (That’s the 616, true believers!) where he currently headlines Marvel’s adjectiveless Spider-Man title.