Cigarette smoke, dames to kill for, crooked cops — latex super suit?
That’s right, Marvel’s taking on a whole new genre — noir — in the new series from Amazon MGM Studios, Spider-Noir. The studio released the first look at star Nicolas Cage in the series during Monday’s annual upfront presentation. Cage stylishly embodies the synthesis of the two modes in the shot by donning the instantly recognizable spidey suit under the classic uniform of a noir protagonist: a trench coat and fedora tipped low.
The official logline of Spider-Noir, which was announced in 2023, notes that the series “tells the story of an aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.” Viewers will be able to stream the series in either black and white or color.
Spider-Noir marks the first live-action series centering on the superheroic misadventures of everyone’s favorite, friendly neighborhood web-slinger since the Japanese series Spider-Man aired its last episode in 1979. But the Spider-Man Noir character is a more recent addition to the Spider-canon.
Cage voiced an animated version of the character in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the maiden entry in the highly-acclaimed and uber-profitable Spider-Verse trilogy, which is set to conclude in 2027 with Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.
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The role is also far from Cage’s first in a superhero project. The actor previously portrayed the titular character in 2007’s Ghost Rider and its 2012 sequel, he played Big Daddy in the 2010 film Kick-Ass (all Marvel films), and he switched sides for a cameo as Superman in the 2023 DC film The Flash.
Joining Cage in the main cast of Spider-Noir are Lamorne Morris, Brendan Gleeson, Abraham Popoola, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, and Jack Huston. The guest cast includes Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice, Amanda Schull, Andrew Caldwell, Amy Aquino, Andrew Robinson, and Kai Caster.
Harry Bradbeer, a veteran British TV director behind several episodes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Killing Eve and most of Fleabag, will direct. Oren Uziel (22 Jump Street) and Steve Lightfoot (Marvel’s The Punisher) are on board as co-showrunners. The series was developed by Uziel, Lightfoot, and Spider-Verse‘s Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal.
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