Amazon to Produce Live-Action 'Spider-Man Noir' Series from Phil Lord & Chris Miller

by Darian Scalamoni

    We had reported back in November that Amazon would be developing a streaming series on MGM+ revolving around the Spider-Verse character Silk, now there is yet another popular character who has already appeared in animation that is getting a live-action adaptation. According to Variety, Spider-Man Noir, famously voiced by Nicolas Cage in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will be getting a streaming series of his own.

    The currently untitled series will take place in 1930s NYC where Spider-Man Noir roams the streets as a grizzled, older hero within his own universe. The report also states that Peter Parker does not exist within the show. This show, in addition to Silk: Spider Society for MGM+ are just some of the current live-action shows that are in development as Sony has the rights to over 900 characters in the Spider-Man universe which they are now licensing over to Amazon and MGM. Oren Uziel (The Lost City, The Cloverfield Paradox) is writing the series and developed it alongside producers and curators of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Uziel will also pen the modern reboot of Clue starring Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds, as well as Detective Pikachu 2. 

    The Spider-Man Noir comic was released in 2009 under a Marvel Noir initiative at the comic book company, with that version of the character existing during the time of The Great Depression. He is bitten by a spider which is hidden inside a stolen relic which causes him to have visions of a Spider-God and granting him powers. Nicolas Cage's version of the character is beloved, and I can't help but imagine him putting on the trench coat and hat to play Spider-Man Noir in live-action. 

    Sony is also developing a world of Spider-Man characters in live-action across film with Tom Hardy's Venom about to close out his trilogy, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is set to play Kraven the Hunter due later this year and Dakota Johnson starring in Madame Web in 2024. What are your thoughts on a Spider-Man Noir show? Who do you want to see play the 30s-set web slinger?