Nicolas Cage’s SPIDER-NOIR will reportedly face the Sandman in the upcoming live-action series

As Prime Video’s Spider-Man Noir (now apparently titled Spider Noir) live-action series starts casting its supporting actors, we can already guess which villain Nicolas Cage will be up against in his interpretation of the wall climber from the Great Depression.

Accordingly Daniel RichtmanA version of Flint Marko, also known as Sandman, will appear in the series. We don’t know if this is the character Brendan Gleeson will play or if Marko will be the main villain, but we would say he will be more of a secondary antagonist.

If the series follows the comics, this version of the Sandman will be a bit more grounded than the one played by Thomas Haden Church in Spider Man 3 And No way home. Although he still has superpowers, he can only turn his body into solid stone, making him impervious to injury.

The series is said to follow 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,” but this interpretation of the character is not probably Peter Parker.

Of course, the comic book incarnation of Noir is an alternate universe version (or variant) of Parker, but this project may have chosen to give the character a different identity to avoid confusion.

Oren Uziel will serve as a writer and executive producer on the show. Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, as well as former Sony CEO Amy Pascal, are also on board as executive producers.

Uziel is known for writing romantic action films The Lost Citytogether with people like 22 Jump Street, Mortal KombatAnd The Cloverfield ParadoxHe is also the author of John Wick: Chapter 4 and the upcoming Borderland Video game adaptation.

Cage has played the role of Noir in the last Across the Spider-Verse animated sequel, but he is expected to return in the final film of the animated trilogy, Beyond the Spider-Verse.

The character was used primarily as a comedic element in Into the Spider-Verse, but the comics are much darker, so it will be interesting to see what direction this live-action show takes.

“Spider-Man Noir, often referred to simply as Noir, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. This alternate version of Spider-Man is part of the Marvel Noir universe (Earth-90214) and is a noir version of the character. He appears in a version of New York during the Great Depression. While investigating a smuggling ring, Peter Parker is bitten by what appears to be a highly venomous spider that resides inside a Spider God idol. Parker falls unconscious and has a vision of the Spider God promising him power. He then awakens in a cocoon and escapes from it. He now has superhuman abilities similar to those of a spider.”