Next month, the web starts to unravel. Watch the new trailer for “Spider-Noir” – a live-action series starring Nicolas Cage – arriving in both Authentic Black & White and True-Hue Full Color.
Nicholas Cage stars as Ben Reilly, AKA The Spider, in Amazon Prime Video’s Spider-Noir.
An aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.
With no power comes no responsibility.
Watch the new “Authentic” trailer in both “authentic black and white” and “True-Hue” full color versions.
The new trailer reveals bits of a bunch of the super-powered baddies Ben Reilly will have to deal with, notably including the Jack Huston as the Sandman, and Brendan Gleeson as Silvermane. We also meet Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy, who in the comics has the alter ego of the Black Cat. and Lamorne Morris as Joseph “Robbie” Robertson. There’s also a super-powered pyro who threatens Silermane and his empire, whom Ben Reilly will have to combat.
And yes, we get to see Nicholas Cage lean hard into both his very credible Humphrey Bogart vibe and webslinging in the action sequences. Oh, and no mechanical web shooters for Ben Reilly. His are purely organic, so he’ll never run out of web fluid.
According to a press release, Spider-Noir will debut domestically on MGM+’s linear broadcast channel on May 25, then globally on Prime Video on May 27 “as a binge release,” in more than 240 countries and territories.
The show will also be available to stream in two ways: in “Authentic Black & White” and “True-Hue Full Color” for audiences to choose their own adventure to watch. The series was shot digitally, in color, but specifically designed to be viewed in black and white, using a color process intended to mimic the look of the nitrate films of that era that gave us the shimmering “silver screen” look. The “True-Hue” version is a conceit as well, meant to look like a colorization of the original black and white.
Spider-Noir stars Nicholas Cage in his first television role, and is an eight episode mini-series set in 1930’s New York. All eight episodes drop on May 27, and is produced by Sony Pictures Television for the MGM+ and Prime Video streaming services.
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