After playing Spider-Man Noir in the animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Nicolas Cage will reprise the role in a live action TV series, we’ve learned this morning.
The series is simply titled “Noir,” and Variety reports this morning that the project has been ordered to series by MGM+ and Prime Video. Variety details, “The series will debut domestically on MGM+’s linear channel followed by a global launch on Prime Video.”
“Noir” will tell the story “of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.”
Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot are the showrunners and executive producers.
“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,” said Vernon Sanders, head of television for Amazon MGM Studios. “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.”
“We are absolutely thrilled to have Nicolas Cage starring in this series! No one else could bring such pathos, pain, and heart to this singular character,” said Katherine Pope, president of Sony Pictures Television Studios. “Along with our brilliant producers and partners at Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video, we couldn’t ask for a better team to explore this reimagining of such an iconic character in Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters.”
The Spider-Man Noir character is an alternate version of Spider-Man that was introduced back in February 2009. The character has to date never appeared in the world of live action.
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