Spider-Man Noir (Amazon)

[ZariusTwo]

A Spider-Man Noir live-action series is in the works at Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively.



The untitled series will follow an older, grizzled superhero in 1930s New York City. An individual with knowledge of the project says that the show will be set in its own universe and the main character will not be Peter Parker.



This is the second known project based on the Sony-controlled Marvel characters at Amazon Prime Video and MGM+. It was previously announced that Amazon was moving forward with the series “Silk: Spider Society” from showrunner Angela Kang, with several other shows in the works. It is unknown at this time which other Marvel characters will be featured in the other Amazon shows, though Sony currently controls over 900 such characters associated with the Spider-Man franchise.



Oren Uziel will serve as writer and executive producer on the Spider-Man Noir show. Uziel developed the show along with “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and former Sony boss Amy Pascal, who all executive produce. Pascal executive produces via Pascal Pictures. Sony Pictures Television is the studio, with Lord and Miller currently under an overall deal there.



Uziel most recently worked on the screenplay for the romantic comedy feature “The Lost City” starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. His other writing credits include “22 Jump Street,” the 2021 “Mortal Kombat” film, and “The Cloverfield Paradox.” He has also worked on the scripts for upcoming films like “John Wick 4” and “Borderlands,” based on the video game of the same name.



He is repped by Curate and Myman Greenspan.



The Spider-Man Noir comics originally debuted in 2009 as part of the Marvel Noir universe. That version of the iconic superhero lives in New York during the Great Depression. He is bitten by a spider hidden inside a stolen artifact, causing him to have visions of a spider-god who grants him superpowers. The character has previously appeared onscreen in the animated series “Ultimate Spider-Man” with Milo Ventimiglia providing his voice, while Nicolas Cage voiced the character in “Into the Spider-Verse.” The Amazon show will be the first live-action iteration of Spider-Man Noir.



Sony has released multiple Spider-Man live-action films in the past and currently works with Marvel Studios on the rebooted film franchise starring Tom Holland via Columbia Pictures. Sony is also behind “Into the Spider-Verse,” which won the Academy Award for best animated film in 2019. Two sequels to that film are currently in the works, with the first — “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” — due out in theaters in June 2023.



To date, Sony has also released the live-action films “Venom” and its sequel “Let There Be Carnage” starring Tom Hardy, as well as “Morbius” starring Jared Leto. A third “Venom” film is currently in development, while Sony is also at work on film versions of characters like “Kraven the Hunter” starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and “Madame Web” starring Dakota Johnson, among several others.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/spi...on-1235515943/

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[ZariusTwo]

[nidza_maj2000]

This trailer is really good, we might get Electro in this series based on that one shot in this trailer that appears to be his hand

[Andrew NDB]

lol... I have no idea what to expect from this. It could be exactly what Sony was hoping Morbius would be but wasn't, which is some kind of pulp, cult hit that gets a groundswell of fan support.

Or it could be bad. Very, very bad.

[Powder]

Looks awful. The comics are cool, nothing about this is. Feels like a College Humor skit from days past.

[d_osborn]

I can't wait, it looks phenomenal! Cage acts his ass off in anything he's in. Marvel movies are so tired, this is at least trying to do something unique.

To me, it's like a wacky hope of the late-90's Burton/Cage Superman mixed with the early-90s wave of pulp hero movies.

[Andrew NDB]

Cancelled.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/spider-...led-at-amazon/

Though like a lot of things I never assumed they were even going for a multi-season thing? I thought this was like a standalone miniseries.

[CyberCubed]

Yeah this was meant to be one and done. I don't know why they say "canceled" for everything when a Season 2 was never even planned. It's just a buzzword now.

[TylerD]

Originally Posted by d_osborn

I can't wait, it looks phenomenal! Cage acts his ass off in anything he's in. Marvel movies are so tired, this is at least trying to do something unique.

To me, it's like a wacky hope of the late-90's Burton/Cage Superman mixed with the early-90s wave of pulp hero movies.

I didn’t mind it at all, but I honestly wish they would have picked someone else to play Spider-Man. I absolutely love cage as an actor. I don’t know why, I just didn’t like him for this role. It just didn’t suit him. I really had trouble getting past that. I thought the more I watched it, the more used to him I would get playing Spider-Man, but it just never happened. I thought it was done very well, but they should have picked someone else to play Spider-Man. Of course that is just my opinion. If people liked Cage as Spider-Man that is all good.

[Andrew NDB]

I don't really see anything wrong with Cage in the part except for if he was going to do it, it should have been about 25 years ago. Not now.

[IMJ]

On one hand I think show was a great idea and a cool concept.
On the other hand I wasn't able to make it beyond episode 2 or 3 and I have no idea when I will care to do it.

So maybe it wasn't that great? I dunno.

[Andrew NDB]

For me...

* Do I want to see a near-elderly Nicolas Cage acting like Spider-Man now? No.

* Do I want to see a 1920s thing in some Sony Spider-multiverse? No.

* Would there even be anything I'd really want to see or would get excited to see in such a thing? No.

* Will it have any impact on anything else with either Spider-Man in the Marvel universe? No, probably not.

[IMJ]

I think the problem for me was that it wasn't until sometime into the show until he did anything as Spider-Man. IIRC he was on the roof of a car during a chase in the middle of the day and told a gangster to leave his pedestrian-identity alone.

Whatever episode that was was the last one I sat through.

[TylerD]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I don't really see anything wrong with Cage in the part except for if he was going to do it, it should have been about 25 years ago. Not now.

Maybe that’s what bothered me about it. He was just too old at this point in his career. I’m not quite sure why I didn’t like him for the role, but I do agree with you. Wish they would have went with someone not in their 60s lol

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by TylerD

Maybe that’s what bothered me about it. He was just too old at this point in his career. I’m not quite sure why I didn’t like him for the role, but I do agree with you. Wish they would have went with someone not in their 60s lol

Well.... they clearly went with him 100% as an extension of his voice-acting in the Spider-Verse animated flicks. Which is ironic really because his droll, "I don't care" voice-over doesn't translate into this show well. He's a caricature in the animations.