Prime Video has released the last trailer for its upcoming live action series. spider-noir, Starring Nicolas Cage, and once again it has been released in two formats: one in black and white (below) and the other in color (above), which the showrunners are calling “True Hue”. Seriously, the more footage we see of this series, the more curious we are to know if this series lives up to its marketing. And the final trailer – which features genuinely tasteless humor and is set to Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” – is very promising.
As previously reported, Marvel Comics created its “noir” line in 2009, reinterpreting familiar Marvel characters in an alternate universe, usually set during the Great Depression in America. A version of the Spider-Noir character, voiced by Cage, appeared briefly in The Animated Masterpiece Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and across the spider-verse (2023). (He is set to reprise that role in an upcoming film beyond spider-verse.)
Cage plays Ben Reilly, a stoic PI with a secret superhero identity, The Spider. According to official basis: “spider-noir It tells the story of Ben Reilly, a seasoned, down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York who, after a deep personal tragedy, is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s only superhero.
In addition to Cage’s Ben Reilly/The Spider, the cast includes Lamorne Morris as Reilly’s friend Robbie Robertson, a freelance journalist who clings to optimism despite his friend’s skepticism; Lee Joon Lee as nightclub singer Cat Hardy, the classic underworld femme fatale (Lee based her portrayal on Anna May Wong, Rita Hayworth and Lauren Bacall); Karen Rodriguez as Reilly’s secretary, Janet; Abraham Popula as a World War I veteran; Jack Huston becomes the classic villain Sandman as a bodyguard named Flint Marco (as we see in the new trailer); Brendan Gleeson as New York mob boss Silvermane, who is being targeted for assassination; Lucas Haas as one of Silverman’s subordinates; Richard Robichaux as editor of the Daily Bugle; And Kai Caster.
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