Two trailers for the upcoming Spider-Noir television series have been released, offering a first glimpse at Nicolas Cage's superhero private investigator in both black-and-white and full colour. The show is set to debut on MGM+ on May 25 before arriving on Prime Video on May 27, with streaming viewers given the choice of which version to watch.
The series, produced by Sony Pictures Television and based on the Marvel comic series Spider-Man Noir, also stars Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Jack Huston and Karen Rodriguez. The story follows Cage as private investigator Ben Reilly, who becomes a superhero in 1930s New York City after suffering a deeply personal tragedy.
At a Deadline event this weekend, executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller revealed that Cage had decided to play the character as 70% Humphrey Bogart and 30% Bugs Bunny. Miller explained: 'One of the things that you don't think about with Noir is that you're like, 'It's super serious.' But Bogart always had a twinkle in his eye and he was always doing something clever.'
Lord added: 'There's like a playfulness to it, right? And there's a playfulness to Nic... The idea is that the show is: it is a big character drama, it is an amazing mystery, it's a big event television, but it's also light on its feet.'
The series was developed as a stand-alone project after Cage initially voiced the character in the first Spider-Verse movie. Miller said: 'When the idea of us making a live-action Spider show came up, this was the first idea that we had. Because it felt like it was a contained universe. It was its own thing.'
