In Amazon's Live-Action Spider-Man Spinoff Spider-Noir, Nicolas Cage Plays Ben Reilly — Not Peter Parker

Amazon has revealed caller details astir the upcoming Prime Video Spider-Man spinoff series, Spider-Noir, and released caller posters for the show.

Spider-Noir is simply a live-action bid based connected the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir. It tells the communicative of Ben Reilly, played by Nicolas Cage, who is described arsenic “an aging and down connected his luck backstage researcher successful 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past beingness arsenic the city’s 1 and lone superhero.”

This is our archetypal authoritative confirmation that Cage is playing Ben Reilly arsenic opposed to Peter Parker. In the Marvel comics, Ben Reilly, besides known arsenic Scarlet Spider, is simply a clone of Peter Parker/Spider-Man initially tasked with warring him, but helium yet becomes an ally. Created by writer Gerry Conway, the quality archetypal appeared successful The Amazing Spider-Man #149 (October 1975). Ben Reilly arsenic the Scarlet Spider appears successful 2023 animated movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, voiced by Andy Samberg.

Amazon said Spider-Noir volition beryllium disposable successful some achromatic and achromatic and color, and released caller posters, below, reflecting the quality successful look audiences tin expect.

Expect a merchandise astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026, debuting domestically successful the U.S. connected MGM+’s linear channel, past globally connected Prime Video the adjacent time successful much than 240 countries and territories thereafter.

The formed includes Nicolas Cage, Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston, and Brendan Gleeson. Guest prima formed includes Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice, Amanda Schull, Andrew Caldwell, Amy Aquino, Andrew Robinson, and Kai Caster.

Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag, Killing Eve) directed and enforcement produced the archetypal 2 episodes. Oren Uziel (The Lost City, 22 Jump Street) and Steve Lightfoot (Marvel’s The Punisher, Shantaram) service arsenic co-showrunners and enforcement producers. Uziel and Lightfoot developed the bid with the squad down Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal.

Speaking of Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the 3rd movie successful the animated trilogy, is presently acceptable for merchandise connected June 18, 2027. Daniel Kaluuya, who played Hobart "Hobie" Brown / Spider-Punk successful Across the Spider-Verse, is acceptable to play the aforesaid quality successful Beyond the Spider-Verse (he’s besides reportedly acceptable to reprise the relation successful a Spider-Punk animated spinoff).

Marvin Jones III, who voices supervillain Tombstone successful Into the Spider-Verse, is besides acceptable to reprise his relation for Beyond the Spider-Verse. (He’ll play a live-action mentation of the quality successful adjacent year’s MCU movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day, too.)

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