After playing the supernatural anti-hero Ghost Rider in two feature films, actor Nicolas Cage is returning to the world of superheroes with “Spider-Noir.” Taking on the live-action iteration of his “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” character, a private-eye variant of Peter Parker in 1933, who welcomes fights against Nazis. However, some new details about the upcoming streaming series at Prime Video have been revealed alongside new stills, courtesy of Esquire Magazine. Suggesting we’re looking at some differences from the animated take of the character.
One of the interesting changes is that Cage will be using the name of Ben Reilly in the Prime show, a name directly connected to the clone version of Parker known as the Scarlet-Spider, and was voiced by Andy Samberg in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”
“Ben Reilly has already gone through the entire arc and has seen it all. He’s over it and trying to move past it,” showrunner Oren Uziel said. “But his past kind of keeps coming back to haunt him. It’s just a different version that we haven’t seen before.”
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who act as producers on the project, have also alluded to a reason for the name change: “I have to be coy about the reasons, because you’ll find out,” Lord stated. “The reason he’s named Ben Riley is explained,” Miller added. “We’ll leave it at that.”
Others among the cast includes Brendan Gleeson (“Gangs of New York”) as gangland boss Silvermane, Li Jun Li (“Sinners”) as lounge singer Cat Hardy (a variant on Fleicia Hardy/Black Cat?), Emmy-winner Lamorne Morris (“Fargo”) as established reporter Robbie Robertson (played by the late Bill Nunn in the Sam Raimi trilogy), Karen Rodriguez as Janet, and “Boardwalk Empire” alum actor Jack Huston is set to play a gangster version of Flint Marko, better known as Sandman (previously played by Thomas Haden Church in “Spider-Man 3” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home“).
“In all the great detective stories, you have two cases that sort of come together, and you realize you’re actually working the same thing,” Uziel teased of the upcoming Marvel show. “He’s a guy getting dragged into a much larger fight that he doesn’t really want to be a part of. Silvermane is the big bad, but what’s happening to Silvermane connects back to Ben’s past and gets him spiraling deeper and deeper into his own origins.”
Check out those new stills from the upcoming Marvel Comics series “Spider-Noir” below, coming to Prime Video sometime in 2026, as we wait for a trailer.
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