By India McCarty
Marvel fans, get ready — we just got our first look at the upcoming SPIDER-NOIR series.
“OFFICIAL POSTER OF ‘SPIDER NOIR,’” an Instagram post from Brazilian entertainment site Omelete announced.
The post shows the titular character standing behind a glass door, emblazoned with “B. Reilly Private Investigator.”
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While this doesn’t seem like much to go on, this poster clued Marvel fans into a major detail about the show — Spider-Man Noir won’t be an alternate-universe version of Peter Parker, as he is in the comics. Instead, he’ll be Ben Reilly, who was first introduced in the Spider-Man comics in 1975 as a clone of Peter Parker.
It’s unknown whether or not the series will use the comic book version of the character’s backstory, or if they were simply looking for a different name for the character to avoid confusion.
SPIDER-NOIR will follow “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,” per IMDb.
Nicolas Cage is reprising the lead role — he previously voiced the character in the SPIDER-VERSE movies — while Lamorne Morris, Brendan Gleeson, Abraham Popoola, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez and Jack Huston round out the cast.
The series was put into development by Sony and Amazon in February 2023. While the strikes delayed production, SPIDER-NOIR was officially ordered in May 2024.
The series is significant for Cage, as it is his first real TV role. Speaking to ComicBookMovie, the actor said, “I saw Bryan Cranston in BREAKING BAD stare at a suitcase for half the episode. I thought, ‘We don’t have time to do that in movies.’ So that to me seemed like an opportunity to open it up a little.”
“I don’t know if the project [NOIR] that I’m exploring has room for that. I think this is a much more sort of popcorn-entertainment episodic,” he continued.
Cage called SPIDER-NOIR’s look “more of a Pop-art mashup, like a Lichtenstein painting” with “some sparkle to it,” and made it clear the show won’t feature any gratuitous violence.
“I don’t like violence,” the actor explained. “I don’t want to play people who are hurting people. One of the things that I like about this potential show is that it’s fantasy. It’s not really people beating people up. Monsters are involved.”
There’s no official word yet on when fans can expect SPIDER-NOIR, but the series is expected to hit Amazon Prime in 2026. We can’t wait!
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