Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage has been confirmed to reprise his role as Spider-Man Noir in the new live-action Marvel TV series. The show will be titled “Noir,” and it will air on the linear channel of MGM+. International audiences will be able to watch it on Amazon Prime Video.
Cage will again don the black coat after voicing the character in the Oscar-winning animated feature, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (2018).
This will be the first time the ‘Spider-Man’ will be played in a live-action project.
What is the story of Noir?
Beginning in 2009, the series will be based on the Spider-Man Noir comics. It will embrace its gritty 1930s New York setting as it follows a grizzled, down-on-his-luck private investigator grappling with his current career and past life as the city’s only superhero.
Cage originated the character in animated form on the big screen with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, where he served as a mentor and ally to Miles Morales.
Noir will go beyond his greyscale facade and looks to paint a complicated portrait of the fan-favorite hero that is anything but black-and-white.
It’s a chance for Cage to revisit a character he has expressed love for and described as a mash-up of sorts with his “favorite golden age performances, i.e. Robinson, Cagney, Bogart…”
Though Variety exclusively reported that the series was in development in 2023, Nicolas Cage’s involvement was not identified.
Besides being co-showrunners and executive producers, Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot will be helming the series. ‘Noir’ was developed together with Uriel and Lightfoot and the “Into The Spider-verse” team, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal, and they were also executed by them.
The announcement came into the limelight ahead of Amazon’s upfront presentation to advertisers today. “Expanding the Marvel universe with Noir is a uniquely special opportunity, and we are honored to bring this series to our global Prime Video customers.
The extremely talented Nicolas Cage is an ideal choice for our new superhero, and the accomplished producing team with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal, and the incredible team at Sony are dedicated to expanding this franchise most authentically,” announced Vernon Sanders, Head of Television for Amazon MGM studios.
This will be Cage’s first regular TV performance. The Ghost Rider star was last seen in “Dream Scenario” and “Renfield,” both released in 2023.
Is Cage returning to the Spider-Verse?
Cage is also set to return to the animated Spider-Verse.
While Cage’s solo Spider-Man adventure is now moving full speed ahead, he has some business to take care of in a world beyond his in Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.
The ending of last year’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse saw the original multiversal spiders Noir, Spider-Ham (John Mulaney), and Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn) join Spider-Gwen’s (Hailee Steinfeld) task force to save Miles (Shameik Moore) from the clutches of his evil Earth-42 counterpart and, in turn, save the Spider-Verse.
Cage will join an expanded team made up of Spider-Man (Jake Johnson), Spider-Man India (Karan Soni), and Spider-Punk (Daniel Kaluuya), among others, with Lord and Miller promising even more new variants in the trilogy capper. Unfortunately, last year, the film was delayed indefinitely and could be eyeing a 2025 release.
About Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a superhero created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. He appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, as well as in a number of movies, television shows, and video game adaptations set in the Marvel Universe. In the stories, Spider-Man is the alias of Peter Parker, an orphan raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City after his parents Richard and Mary Parker died in a plane crash.
Nicholas Hammond first starred as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in the 1977 made-for-television film Spider-Man and would appear as the character two other times. By 1999, Sony Pictures Entertainment had acquired the film rights to the character, creating two film series until 2014: the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy of films (2002–2007) starring Tobey Maguire, and the Marc Webb Amazing Spider-Man films (2012 and 2014) starring Andrew Garfield. In February 2015, Disney, Marvel Studios, and Sony made a deal to share the Spider-Man film rights, leading to a new iteration of Spider-Man being introduced and integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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