If you share an idea enough, it may just come to fruition. Like a Spider-Man Noir series starring Nicolas Cage. As soon as audiences heard Cage’s voice behind the black-and-white character Noir in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, it was obvious what needed to happen. This week Sony Pictures Television Studios and Amazon MGM Studios announced it really is going to happen: Nicolas Cage has signed on to play the live-action 1930s superhero in a series coming to streaming platforms MGM+ and Prime Video. Noir 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.
It’s probably the best news from either the Marvel or DC superhero franchises in years. Cage knows exactly how to maximize his screentime, to create and embody a role in his own way, and one fans absolutely love. His attention to detail and his own ability to make movie magic is why Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will probably never be surpassed. He’s done the superhero thing more than anyone. He appeared as Big Daddy in Kick-Ass after almost starring in a Tim Burton Superman movie years ago, then came back to play that Superman in a cameo scene in the movie The Flash. He’s played Ghost Rider twice. And his Spider-Man Noir was the best of the secondary players in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
A lifelong comic book connoisseur, Cage was born to portray superheroes–going so far early in his career as renaming himself from Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage after Marvel’s Luke Cage.
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Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot will be co-showrunners and executive producers, along with executive producers Solo: A Star Wars Story and The Lego Movie’s Phil Lord, who wrote the screenplay for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with Christopher Miller.
Noir will fit into the Spidey world of Sony’s other live-action Marvel movies, including specifically the most popular series after Tom Holland’s Spider-Man trilogy, Tom Hardy’s Venom series. No specifics are available for the release date for Noir, but it has all the signs for a 2026 release.
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