Spider-Noir — Color version conjures a Dick Tracy vibe

Sony Pictures Television Studios and Amazon MGM Studios released another trailer going behind the scenes of the new Marvel series Spider-Noir. Sure to be one of the biggest series of the year, the saga of the 1930s superhero most of the world first discovered in the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is headed in live-action form to Prime Video on May 27. As a Marvel property, it looks more like the gritty action of the Netflix Marvel TV series more than anything we’ve seen since from Disney+. Spider-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 being the city’s one and only superhero.

Brendan Gleeson is Silvermane. Jack Huston is Sandman. Abraham Popoola is Tombstone. Andrew Caldwell is Megawatt. The series is going to be streaming in two versions: one in glorious black and white, and one in a comic book-esque sort of four-color “True-Hue Full Color” edition. Just as watching Logan Noir-the black and white version of the Academy Award nominated Logan–is a much better and different movie than the color edition, with this new trailer in two editions it seems both have a different vibe. Yes, the classic black and white is stunning, but for fans of the Warren Beatty Dick Tracy movie, the color trailer really conjures a similar vibe.

So who’s in? Check out the next teaser for Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir:

So will you watch it in “True-Hue Color”–

… in glorious black and white?

We know, we know. You’re going to watch both.

In case you missed them, the earlier previews:

If you share an idea enough, it may just come to fruition. Like a live-action 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.

Doesn’t it look like a crime tale from Westlake or Gardner? 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.

In the trailer that’s the great Lamorne Morris (Saturday Night, New Girl) as Robbie Robertson. The series co-stars Karen Rodriguez as Janet, his Gal Friday, and Li Jun Li as femme fatale Cat Hardy, plus Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice, Amanda Schull, Bosch veteran Amy Aquino, and Deep Space Nine veteran Andrew Robinson. Could the great Lily Tomlin (please?) return as Aunt May, reprising her role from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?

Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot will be co-showrunners and executive producers, along with executive producer Phil Lord (Solo: A Star Wars Story and The Lego Movie), who wrote the screenplay for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with Christopher Miller. Spider-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.