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  • ‘Spider-Noir’ Trailer Unleashes Nicolas Cage’s Ben Reilly

    Prime Video and Marvel officially unleashed the full-length trailer for Spider-Noir last night during a surprise CCXP Mexico presentation. Producer Christopher Miller described the series as a “Humphrey Bogart detective story where the detective has spider powers.”

    Unlike the animated version from Spider-Verse, Cage is playing a live-action Ben Reilly in a self-contained, noir-soaked universe.

    “The origin story was this was a character that we developed in the first Spider-Verse movie, and we had an amazing time working with Nic Cage,” Miller explained to Deadline. “And when the idea of us making a live-action Spider show came up, this was the first idea that we had, because it felt like it was a contained universe. It was its own thing.”

    Unlike the animated film, Spider-Noir will be gritty, standalone 1930s detective thriller that feels more like The Maltese Falcon than The Avengers with Cage’s Reilly a 70/30 mix of Humphrey Bogart and Bugs Bunny.

    “One of the things that you don’t think about with Noir is that you’re like, ‘It’s super serious,’” Miller explained during Spider-Noir’s panel at Deadline Contenders TV event Saturday, “But Bogart always had a twinkle in his eye and he was always doing something clever, and he and Bugs Bunny have more in common than you might think.”

    Co-producer Christopher Lord agreed, saying, “Yeah, there’s like a playfulness to it, right? And there’s a playfulness to Nic – I think that’s why he’s so iconic and there’s a playfulness to Oren, who we worked with on the Jump Street movies. And so the idea is that the show is: it is a big character drama, it is an amazing mystery, it’s a big event television, but it’s also light on its feet.”

    Check out the new trailer below, in either Authentic Black and White or True Hue Full Color. The series will premiere on Prime Video on May 27th.

    Source: Deadline

  • Details Emerge on Nic Cage’s ‘Spider-Noir’ Streaming Series

    Details Emerge on Nic Cage’s ‘Spider-Noir’ Streaming Series

    After spending a little more than a year in development, Amazon and MGM+ are now moving forward on their live-action Spider-Man Noir streaming series starring Nic Cage. After debuting in the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Cage’s character became a fan favorite which led producers Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Amy Pascal to put gears in motion on the project with Oren Uziel developing the scripts. The series, titled Spider-Noir, series will tell “the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.” Now, as casting on the project gets underway, details about Spider-Noir have begun to emerge.

    As was originally reported, Cage’s Depression-era hero won’t be a variant of Peter Parker but rather Ben Reilly. Brendan Gleeson was recently cast and some new information on the project from a reliable source may reveal which Spidey villain he’ll be playing. Insider Daniel RPK has shared a brief of the project’s plot which includes NYC mob boss Silvermane and cop turned vigilante Yuri Watanabe.

    We follow Ben Reilly, a PI, as he stumbles down a rabbit hole of corruption in 1933 New York City, while also establishing his past as a superhero. Reilly investigates the death of Edward Addison, which leads him to discover that the Mayor is up to something nefarious that involves crime boss Silvermane and femme fatale Yuri Watanabe.

    -Spider-Noir details via Daniel RPK

    It does seem possible that Gleeson could fill the role of Silvermane though there’s already some speculation that he might portray the Noir universe’s Norman Osborn. Gleeson joins a cast that currently only consists of Cage and Lamorne Morris (New Girl), who is set to play Daily Bugle editor Robbie Robertson. With casting underway, Spider-Noir should begin filming late in 2024 which means much more information on the project will come to light over the next several months.