What We Know About Amazon’s SPIDER-MAN NOIR Series

Published: September 20, 2024

What We Know About Amazon’s SPIDER-MAN NOIR Series

By Movieguide® Contributor

Amazon MGM Studios just added eight recurring cast members to its upcoming live-action SPIDER-MAN NOIR series.

The cast now includes Lukas Haas (INCEPTION), Cameron Britton (A MAN CALLED OTTO), Cary Christopher (FULLER HOUSE), Michael Kostroff (THE WIRE), Scott MacArthur (EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE), Joe Massingill (KILLING IT), Whitney Rice (SUITS) and Amanda Schull (SUITS). Variety reported, “Exact character details are being kept under wraps.”

The additions join “series lead Nicolas Cage as well as fellow cast members Lamorne Morris, Brendan Gleeson, Abraham Popoola, Li Jun Li and Jack Huston,” Variety added.

The series follows “An aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York [who] is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.”

“This will mark Spider-Man Noir’s debut in live-action, inspired by the Marvel Comics hero who helms from an alternate reality’s version of New York during the Great Depression,” Screen Rant reported.

Gleeson’s role was officially confirmed earlier this month. While his character details are also under wraps, it is believed that he will play the series’ main villain.

Cage, who will play Spider-Man Noir, told Comic Book Movie described the series as “more of a Pop-art mashup, like a Lichtenstein painting.”

“I don’t like violence,” he continued. “I don’t want to play people who are hurting people. One of the things that I like about this potential show is that it’s fantasy. It’s not really people beating people up. Monsters are involved.”

The series will be “produced by Sony Pictures Television exclusively for MGM+ and Prime Video. Harry Bradbeer (FLEABAG, KILLING EVE) is set to direct, and executive produce the first two episodes. Oren Uziel (THE LOST CITY, 22 JUMP STREET) and Steve Lightfoot (Marvel’s THE PUNISHER, SHANTARAM) will serve as co-showrunners and executive producers,” according to Deadline.

Movieguide® previously reported on Cage:

While Nicholas Cage has appeared in almost every genre of movie out there, the prodigious actor revealed the projects that he dislikes and the projects he still gets excited about today during a recent interview with The New Yorker.

Though Cage’s recent movies have included a string of violent characters, such as his portrayal of Dracula in 2023’s RENFIELD — which Movieguide® rated a -4 and called “one of the most bloody, violent mainstream horror movies ever made” — or his role the upcoming serial killer horror LONGLEGS, the actor revealed he doesn’t like violence and instead gravitates towards projects about people.

“I don’t like violence,” Cage said. “I don’t want to play people who are hurting people. One of the things that I like about this potential show [SPIDER-MAN NOIR] is that it’s fantasy. It’s not really people beating people up.”

Instead, Cage likes to take roles that would have inspired him as a kid — roles that focus on excellent moviemaking and storytelling rather than movies for the masses that earn him a major paycheck.