It seems unlikely that we will witness Donald Glover shooting webs anytime soon.
The comedian, musician, and actor has a lengthy relationship with Spider-Man dating back to 2010, when he and his supporters started an internet campaign to get him cast in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man. The part eventually went to Andrew Garfield, but Glover has since made a nаme for himself in the Spider-Verse. He appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2018) as Miles Morales’ uncle Aaron. Glover is now acknowledging that he’s most likely “too old” to portray Spider-Man, but he wouldn’t be shocked if the opportunity to return to the Spider-Verse arose.
During the Vanity Fair Lie Detector Test, Glover and Maya Erskine, who costarred with him in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, asked Glover whether she believed that his most recent Spider-Verse appearance was “Sony’s way of apologizing for not casting you as Spider-Man.”
“No!” Glover laughed as he said. “I doubt they gave it a second thought. There will undoubtedly be a live-action Miles Morales film at some point, and I believe they are more worried about me playing Prowler or something like. I’m currently too old to be Spider-Man.
Glover most recently had a fleeting appearance in the animated movie Across the Spider-Verse, participating in a brief live-action scene. (It occurs after Miles Morales discovers Glover’s Prowler has been put in jail while meandering through the Spider-Society.) This is also a full circle moment for Glover, who voiced Miles in the animated Ultimate Spider-Man series before. Miles’ cocreator, Brian Michael Bendis, has acknowledged that the Community scene in which Glover wears Spider-Man pajamas served as inspiration for him.
Meanwhile, Glover is keeping himself occupied. He and his brother Stephen Glover are working on a Star Wars film about Lando Calrissian, in addition to costarring with Erskine in Mr. & Mrs. Smith on Amazon Prime Video.