This doesn’t seem very substantial to me? If it’s been scrapped last minute, why are the cast just now recording lines? Voice work happens months, sometimes years before scenes make it past thumbnails.
This reads like execs made a stupid promise without consulting anyone on production, and now they’re making excuses for production on a cartoon taking a long time.
All cartoons take a long time! It takes years to make a movie of this sort. Expecting it immediately is, I’m just going to be blunt, a real dumbass move.
Probably because, ideally, the two halves of the one super-long movie should've been produced sequentially. Miles-Spiderman-3 isn't a fresh movie, #2 was ended mid plot as a part 1. If a part 1 was done correctly, part 2's story would be relatively set in stone. This news means it isn't, whoch is a bad sign for hopes of continuity
Not to mention they delayed releasing part 1 for years (or at least a year cause of covid). You'd have assumed they'd have taken advantage of that, but it could be a casualty of the writers strike.