{"id":466637,"date":"2026-02-10T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466637\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:27:10","slug":"spider-noir-confirms-which-marvel-villains-nic-cage-will-be-fighting-in-new-tv-series-theyre-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466637\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Noir Confirms Which Marvel Villains Nic Cage Will Be Fighting in New TV Series (They’re Perfect)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even with Spider-Man: Brand New Day coming out this summer, and a third film in the Spider-Verse animated series in the works, one of the most exciting additions to the Marvel franchise isn\u2019t coming to movie theaters. Later this year, Prime Video will release the surprising spin-off TV show Spider-Noir<\/a>, the first live-action Spider-Man series since the Nicholas Hammond-starring show in the 1970s. Starring Nicolas Cage<\/a> as a version of the character he\u2019s already voiced in the Spider-Verse movie, it allows a distinct take on the hero to make his way out into the world with some surprising changes.<\/p>\n

Not much has been known about the series to this point, though it has been confirmed already that Cage will actually be playing Ben Reilly as his hero<\/a>, rather than a variant of Peter Parker, in addition to the series releasing both black & white and color episodes<\/a> at launch. Now, Esquire<\/a> has a new preview of the series, including not only new photos of Cage and his co-stars but confirmation from executive producers about the other characters that will appear. Among them? A major Spider-Man villain in Silvermaine. <\/p>\n

Spider-Noir Series Finally Brings Silvermaine to Live-Action<\/p>\n

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The new preview of Spider-Noir is filled with a slew of details about the hit series, but finally confirms two major Marvel villains that will be involved in the fun. First, the series confirms that Brendan Gleeson will take on the role of \u201ca gangland boss known as Silvermane,\u201d a name that Marvel fans will know well from the character who made his debut in Amazing Spider-Man #73 back in 1969. A recurring enemy of Spider-Man in the comics, Silvermane is a perfect villain for Spider-Noir. Despite the fact that he\u2019s become super-powered and almost completely robotic in recent years, he has long been a simple gangster in the pages of the comics and has actually never appeared in any of the feature film adaptations of the Marvel hero.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Silvermane in Spider-Noir \u201chas been the subject of repeated assassination attempts,\u201d one of which comes via an arsonist who claims he can set fires with his hands. It\u2019s not immediately clear which Spider-Man villain that might be, though it means a character like Molten Man, perhaps, isn\u2019t off the table. Another villain was confirmed, though, with the revelation that Boardwalk Empire star Jack Huston will star as Flint Marko. Spider-Man readers should clock that name immediately, as it\u2019s the civilian name of none other than Sandman. It\u2019s unclear if he\u2019ll have those powers in the show, or if the series will put a noir spin on his abilities, but it would be in keeping with how Spider-Man Noir comics have operated in comics for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn all the great detective stories, you have two cases that sort of come together and you realize you\u2019re actually working the same thing,\u201d showrunner Oren Uziel revealed. \u201cHe\u2019s a guy getting dragged into a much larger fight that he doesn\u2019t really want to be a part of. Silvermane is the big bad, but what\u2019s happening to Silvermane connects back to Ben\u2019s past and gets him spiraling deeper and deeper into his own origins.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new Spider-Noir report also reiterates why Cage\u2019s character isn\u2019t simply a variant of Peter Parker, with executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller noting that Cage\u2019s Ben Reilly is a jaded, older man, which didn\u2019t exactly fit with the idea of Peter Parker, often depicted as a high schooler. This logic doesn\u2019t necessarily track, given the Spider-Verse movie,s though, which not only confirmed Cage\u2019s Spider-Man Noir was a Peter Parker variant but which also includes the Jake Johnson-voiced Peter B. Parker, a jaded and older version of the hero.<\/p>\n

In any event, they maintain that there is also a story reason for why Cage\u2019s character, simply called \u201cThe Spider\u201d rather than Spider-Man (in the vein of \u201cThe Shadow\u201d or \u201cThe Spirit\u201d), is actually Ben Reilly and not Peter Parker. Perhaps the big twist for the show will be that Cage\u2019s character is actually the Uncle Ben to an up-and-coming Peter Parker. <\/p>\n

The eight-episode first season of Spider-Noir will premiere later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with Spider-Man: Brand New Day coming out this summer, and a third film in the Spider-Verse animated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337,29973,1912,11433,139958,190400],"class_list":["post-466637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-prime-video","tag-regular-news","tag-spider-noir","tag-spider-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}