The Spider-Man noir series gets a web-slinging update from Nicolas Cage

Nicholas Cage has done just about everything in Hollywood, but now he’s preparing to break new ground with his first television show: MGM+ and Amazon Prime Video’s live-action Spider-Man Black series. Cage will portray the titular alternate version of the iconic webhead and reprise his role from the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and recently he revealed some more details about the upcoming show in an interview with The New Yorker.

“I mean, the fantasy would be that I could try to go for something more Golden Age,” Cage said, adding, “I wanted to have that kind of aura, you know, like the more mysterious, you don’t know too much. That’s why I’m not on social media. That’s the thinking anyway. I don’t know. We’ll see what happens when I do (Spider-Man Black), and they shot me in black and white. We’ll see if we can capture some of that flair.” Cage also told the New Yorker about his fears about television:

“I don’t want too many unnecessary
physically
Risks. But television is terrifying because you only have a limited amount of time to get the libretto into your body and you have to keep going, keep going, keep shooting. And I thought, ‘This is a challenge. I’m scared of it. I’ve never prepared like this before.'”

Cage will portray the black and white version of Spider-Man

Cage’s version of Spider-Man, first seen in the above-mentioned Into the Spider-Verse, comes from an alternate universe that pays homage to the noir film style popular in the 1940s. The character first appeared as part of Marvel’s Black Comic series in 2009 and is a popular addition to the Spider-Man Universe. When Cage gave the character his voice in Into the Spider-Verse, the black-and-white, fedora-wearing noir Spider-Man came from Earth-90214 and was accompanied by other Spider-Men whose universes collided with that of Miles Morales (Shameik Moore).

Very few details are known about the upcoming series, but a logline from Amazon states that it will be about an “aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York who must come to terms with his former life as the city’s only superhero.” The series was created by Oren Uziel And Steve Lightfoot, who serves as co-showrunner and executive producer. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios. Into the Spider-Verse Directors Phil Lord And Christopher Miller will executive produce for Lord Miller Productions under an overall deal with Sony. Additional executive producers include Amy Pascal for Pascal Pictures and Harry Bradley, who will also direct the first two episodes.

No release window has been announced for Black, but the show will premiere on MGM+ and Amazon Prime Video. Into the Spider-Verse is now streaming on Prime Video.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Teenager Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must team up with five spider-like individuals from other dimensions to fight off a threat to all realities.

Release date

14 December 2018

Duration

117

Authors

Phil Lord, Rodney Rothman

Studio

Sony Pictures

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