Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has opened the doors to a dense, rich, and... colorful universe. However, on Prime Video, a series directly inspired by the animated saga will be taking on a grayscale twist and focusing on one of Peter Parker's variants. Announced with great fanfare several years ago, Spider-Noir is finally showing what it's capable of. It took two years to finally find out what it's all about. As a reminder, the project was made official in 2023 in the columns of Variety. At the time, it was supposed to be part of the Sony Pictures extended universe. But the franchise dedicated to Venom, Morbius, and Madame Web has fallen through, with only Miles Morales and Peter Parker resisting the studio's change of direction. The animated character brings Spider-Noir with him, and that's a good thing.
Through a very short teaser, Prime Video presents its ambitious project which mixes superhero and thriller. The narrator's voice leaves little room for doubt: it will explore an alternative New York of the 1930s and, more specifically, its crime. An aging and unlucky private detective, Spider-Noir will have to use his talents to ensure the safety of his fellow citizens and look into dark cases. "The city is a real mess, people could use a hero," it should be a question of returning to the origins of this vigilante already seen in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its sequel. As good news never comes alone, Prime Video and Sony Pictures Television are calling on the man who already lent his voice in animation.
Nicolas Cage returns home
While he never had the opportunity to play Superman, other than in a sequence with questionable digital effects in The Flash, Nicolas Cage is returning to the Marvel stable (more or less). While he hasn't made an appearance in the MCU, the actor played a Marvel comic book hero in Ghost Rider in 2007.
At that time, the MCU was just a dream come true for Marvel Enterprise, which had to be content with entrusting the adaptation of its iconic stories to studios like Columbia Pictures or 20th Century Fox. Sony Pictures is also one of the companies to benefit from the sale of the adaptation rights to Marvel's iconic heroes in the early 2000s. Nicolas Cage is therefore taking the fall.
He is not alone in this adventure, since he will be starring opposite Rebecca Breeds, Lamorne Morris and Brendan Gleeson. Shot live and in black and white, Spider-Noir will also be available in color for those resistant to monochrome treatment. We now also know how it will be broadcast. MGM+ will be the first to offer the series before Prime Video expands the range of possibilities. With the power of Prime Video, Sony Pictures and MGM+ hope to win over fans of the web-slinger as much as fans of film noir.
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