FRESH COMIC SPINS
The Envelope welcomes a select audience of Hollywood guild members and awards voters to consider some of the season’s most talked about films and television with The Envelope Live. Each screening is followed by a Q&A with the cast and filmmakers moderated by an L.A. Times journalist. For those unable to attend, The Envelope brings you highlights right here. And for videos of these sessions, go to latimes.com/screen ings.
Most recently, The Envelope welcomed the filmmakers behind animated feature Oscar nominee “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and director Spike Lee with his best picture nominee “BlacKkKlansman.”
“Spider-Man” producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller and co-directors Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman joined The Times’ Jeffrey Fleishman to discuss the comic-book-like film that encompasses alternate universes of the web slinger, this one featuring Miles Morales as its hero.
Lee, meanwhile, spoke with The Times’ Mary McNamara along with “BlacKkKlansman” film editor Barry Alexander Brown. Their film relates the based-on-real-life story of a black police detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan.
“This is not a funny subject matter. The humor comes from the absurdity of the premise, of the six-word pitch: ‘Black man infiltrates Ku Klux Klan.’ ” — Spike Lee “Spike sees humor in a lot of places where a lot of other people don’t. As an editor, I try not to ruin a moment, you know?” — Barry Alexander Brown “Rather than it being a gimmick or a stylistic thing, how can we take what comic books give us to make this story land that much harder and more personally with audiences?” — PETER RAMSEY “Spider-Man” director “We wanted to make a movie that made people feel powerful and important and necessary.” — PHIL LORD “Spider-Man” producer