The Spider-Verse has already gone cosmic, multiversal, animated, meme-able, Oscar-winning, and occasionally exhausting, but “Spider-Noir” is taking one of Marvel’s strangest screen-adjacent detours yet: a live-action, 1930s-set private-eye series led by Nicolas Cage.
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Prime Video has released the official trailer for “Spider-Noir,” the upcoming live-action series based on the Marvel comic “Spider-Man Noir.” Cage stars as Ben Reilly, a seasoned, down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York who is forced to reckon with his past life after a deeply personal tragedy—as well as his place as the city’s one and only superhero.
For Cage, the series marks a return of sorts to a corner of the Spider-Verse he already helped define. He previously voiced Spider-Man Noir in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” the 2018 animated breakthrough that reshaped what a superhero movie could look like and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. “Spider-Noir” is not simply replaying that part in another medium, though. This version centers Ben Reilly, not Peter Parker, and builds a live-action noir framework around Cage’s particular gift for haunted, heightened, off-kilter character work.
The series comes with a sizable ensemble. Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston, and Brendan Gleeson star alongside Cage, with 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 appearing as guest stars.
Behind the camera, “Spider-Noir” also carries some real Spider-Verse pedigree. Harry Bradbeer, the Emmy-winning director behind “Fleabag” and “Killing Eve,” directed and executive-produced the first two episodes. Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot serve as co-showrunners and executive producers, with Uziel and Lightfoot developing the series alongside the “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” team of Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal.
Lord and Miller executive produce through Lord Miller, with Aditya Sood and Dan Shear also aboard. Pascal executive produces through Pascal Pictures, while Cage and Pavlina Hatoupis also serve as executive producers. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television exclusively for MGM+ and Prime Video.
Sony’s live-action Spider-Man-adjacent movies have had a bumpy road outside the animated “Spider-Verse” films, but “Spider-Noir” gives the studio something cleaner and stranger to play with: Cage in a pulp detective story, Marvel iconography filtered through old New York shadows, and a superhero who sounds built less for quips than regret. For a character who began as one of the more stylish Spider-Man variants, the leap to a full live-action series is a gamble—but at least it is a gamble with a distinct shape.
“Spider-Noir” is coming to MGM+ and Prime Video. Watch the trailer below, revealed today in Mexico City for CCXPMX26.
