Prime Video dropped the first full trailer for Spider-Noir on Saturday at CCXPMX26 in Mexico City, giving a packed crowd of 2,100 fans their clearest look yet at Nicolas Cage’s live-action debut as a washed-up, 1930s superhero-turned-private-investigator — and revealing that the show will stream in an unusual dual format: both authentic black-and-white and full color.
The eight-episode series premieres May 25 on MGM+’s linear channel, with a global rollout on Prime Video on May 27. It marks Cage’s first starring role in a television series. Cage hoped the dual-format release would inspire viewers to develop an appreciation for early black-and-white noir cinema as an art form.
The show’s creative team has been explicit about the tone they wanted. Executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller — who first developed the Spider-Man Noir character for the 2018 animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — described Cage’s performance as 70 percent Humphrey Bogart and 30 percent Bugs Bunny.
“One of the things that you don’t think about with Noir is that you’re like, ‘It’s super serious,'” Miller said at Deadline’s Contenders TV panel. “But Bogart always had a twinkle in his eye and he was always doing something clever, and he and Bugs Bunny have more in common than you might think.” Lord added: “The show is a big character drama, it is an amazing mystery, it’s big event television, but it’s also light on its feet.”
Miller explained the project’s origins: the character was developed during the first Spider-Verse film, and when the idea of a live-action Spider-Man show emerged, this was the first concept they considered — specifically because it stood apart as a self-contained story. “We didn’t want to do something that’s part of some giant web of interconnected series,” Miller said. “It’s just its own little jewel of a story.”
The series was produced by Sony Pictures Television exclusively for MGM+ and Prime Video, with Emmy-winning Fleabag and Killing Eve director Harry Bradbeer directing and executive producing the first two episodes. Brendan Gleeson plays gangland boss Silvermane, while Jack Huston plays a version of Flint Marko — also known as Sandman. Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Abraham Popoola, and Karen Rodriguez round out the main cast.
The series carries the tagline “With No Power, Comes No Responsibility” — a deliberate inversion of Spider-Man’s defining maxim — and showrunner Oren Uziel has said a second season set during World War II is already a possibility he is excited to explore.
