Marvel’s street-level superheroes have rarely looked quite this old-school and this hard-boiled. “Spider-Noir,” the new live-action series starring Nicolas Cage in his first lead role on television, has a new trailer from Prime Video. The hook is exactly what the title promises: Spider-Man mythology filtered through private-eye pulp, Depression-era shadows, and a star who has spent much of his career making eccentricity feel like his personal art form.
The series follows Ben Reilly, a down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York who once operated as the city’s only superhero, The Spider. After stepping away from that life following a personal tragedy, Reilly is pulled back toward the mask when a new case forces him to confront the past he has been trying to bury.
There’s also a formal wrinkle baked into the release. “Spider-Noir” will be available in both black and white and color, marketed as “Authentic Black and White” and “True-Hue Full Color,” giving viewers the option to watch it as a full noir homage or in a color version of the same story. Cage has said he hopes that the dual-release approach might help younger viewers find their way toward the classic black and white films that inspired the show’s world.
The cast includes Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson, Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy, Karen Rodriguez as Janet, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston, and Brendan Gleeson. Harry Bradbeer (“Fleabag,” “Killing Eve”) directed and executive produced the first two episodes, with Oren Uziel (“The Lost City,” “22 Jump Street”) and Steve Lightfoot (“Marvel’s The Punisher,” “Shantaram”) serving as co-showrunners and executive producers. The series was developed with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal, the Academy Award-winning team behind “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
Cage’s return to this corner of Spider-lore comes after he voiced Spider-Man Noir in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” though this version is not a straight reprise. Here, he plays Ben Reilly rather than Peter Parker, and the series appears to lean into the hardboiled detective side of the mythology as much as the superhero side.
“Spider-Noir” premieres May 25 on MGM+’s linear broadcast channel, then arrives globally on Prime Video on May 27. Watch the trailer below.
