SPIDER-MAN NOIR Series Adds Eight New Cast Members
By Movieguide® Contributor
Amazon’s SPIDER-MAN NOIR series just added eight new cast members.
The show is set to follow “an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York [as he] is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero,” per IMDb.
Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice and Amanda Schull are all joining the cast, but Variety noted that “exact character details are being kept under wraps.”
They join an already star-studded cast, including Nicholas Cage in the titular role, as well as Brendan Gleeson, Lamore Morris, Abraham Popoola, Li Jun Li and Jack Huston.
“Expanding the Marvel universe with NOIR is a uniquely special opportunity and we are honored to bring this series to our global Prime Video customers,” Vernon Sanders, the head of television for Amazon MGM Studios, shared. “The extremely talented Nicolas Cage is an ideal choice for our new superhero and the accomplished producing team with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal, and the incredible team at Sony is dedicated to expanding this franchise in the most authentic way.”
SPIDER-MAN NOIR will debut domestically on MGM+’s linear channel and then globally on Amazon Prime Video, but a release date has not yet been shared.
Movieguide® previously reported on Cage’s role in SPIDER-MAN NOIR:
“I don’t like violence,” Cage said. “I don’t want to play people who are hurting people. One of the things that I like about this potential show [SPIDER-MAN NOIR] is that it’s fantasy. It’s not really people beating people up.”
Cage’s gravitation towards projects that excite him — whether they are similar to things he has done in the past or not — brought him to his upcoming TV show SPIDER-MAN NOIR.
“I saw Bryan Cranston in BREAKING BAD stare at a suitcase for half the episode,” Cage said. “Just him on the floor looking at a suitcase thinking, ‘What’s in it? Do I do this? Don’t I do it?’ I thought, ‘We don’t have time 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 that I’m exploring has room for that. I think this is a much more sort of popcorn-entertainment [show].”
- Content: +1Share:
- Content: +3