Amazon Studios and MGM are working on a Spider-Man Noir live-action series, brought to us by Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, former Sony head Amy Pascal, and Oren Uziel (Mortal Kombat, The Cloverfield Paradox, 22 Jump Street), who is also on board to pen the scripts.
According to Variety, the show will feature “an older, grizzled superhero in 1930s New York City.” The series will undoubtedly pull at least somewhat from the Marvel Noir comic run, which took the superheroes we know and love and put them into an alternative universe (Earth-90214, for those keeping track) where everything was in shades of grey (literally) and the general fabric of reality gave off some hardboiled detective vibes. This universe’s Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-Man Noir) was created by David Hine and Fabrice Sapolsky, and artists Carmine Di Giandomenico and Marko Djurdjevic.
We’ve seen a version of this Peter before in Into the Spider-Verse (pictured above), where Nic Cage gave voice to the gritty, detective version of the web-slinger. According to Variety’s sources, however, the Spider-Man Noir in this project will not be Peter Parker but someone else. That doesn’t mean, however, that Cage can’t reprise the role in live-action form. And I would certainly be more than happy if he ends up playing the part.
Things are still in the early stages for this project, so no news yet on when we’ll see a real-life Spider-Man Noir leaning against a wall in the rain, illuminated by only a flickering streetlamp as he pulls up the collar on his trenchcoat. If this project makes it to the end, however, it will eventually stream on Prime Video and/or MGM+.
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