{"id":433699,"date":"2026-05-09T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/433699\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:55:09","slug":"new-spider-man-theory-reveals-the-real-reason-nicolas-cages-spider-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/433699\/","title":{"rendered":"New Spider-Man Theory Reveals the Real Reason Nicolas Cage’s Spider Is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spider-Noir<\/a> is going to be the first chapter in Sony\u2019s Spider-Man TV Universe<\/a>, and will feature a fan-favorite version of the Wall-Crawler. Nic Cage first made his debut as \u201cSpider-Man Noir\u201d in the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but now he\u2019s taking the character into live-action with Spider-Noir. <\/p>\n

In the series, Cage will play a variant of Spider-Man named Ben Reilly, \u201can aging, down on his luck private investigator,\u201d who \u201cgrapples with his past life as the only superhero in 1930s New York City, the Spider.\u201d Reilly has been retired from hero work for unexplained reasons until \u201can exceptional case comes his way,\u201d and \u201cReilly must become the Spider once more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did Spider-Noir Retire After An Iconic Loss?<\/p>\n

\"\"Prime Video \u2013 MGM+<\/p>\n

The question that\u2019s already hanging over Spider-Noir is why Ben Reilly chose to retire from superhero work. The latest trailers for the Prime Video-MGM+ series have teased scenes that could possibly be flashbacks to a tragic loss Ben Reilly suffered \u2013 specifically, his wife or lover being trapped in a car that went into the river, with the Spider unable to reach her and pull her free before the car sinks to the depths. Later in the trailer, Ben is informed by his friend Robbie Robertson (Lamonrne Morris) that he \u201chas been in a hole ever since Ruby died.\u201d <\/p>\n

Spider-Noir is doing alt-universe flips<\/a> on several traditional Spider-Man characters, with lounge singer \u201cCat Hardy\u201d (Sinners\u2018 Li Jun Li) looking like an obvious front for this universe\u2019s version of Black Cat; Spider-Man villains Silvermane (Brendan Gleeson), Sandman (Jack Huston), and Tombstone (Abraham Popoola) <\/a>will all get 1930s Noir variants, as well. Even Cage\u2019s character name, \u201cBen Reilly,\u201d is a loaded reference to the original clone of Peter Parker, who has been both an ally to and an enemy of Spider-Man.<\/p>\n

\u201cRuby\u201d sounds like it could be a flip on one of Spider-Man\u2019s two primary love interests, Gwen Stacy or (the ruby-haired) Mary Jane Watson. Whichever love interest they use as the reference point for \u201cRuby,\u201d it looks like Cage\u2019s Ben Reilly will have experienced the same tragic loss that Peter Parker did, when The Green Goblin\/Norman Osborn caused the death of Gwen Stacy when tossing her off a bridge; Spider-Man couldn\u2019t get to Gwen in time, and the force of the fall, and the webline that snagged her, cause Gwen\u2019s neck to break, killing her instantly. The loss led to a showdown that ended with Green Goblin inadvertently killing himself, and left Peter deeply traumatized. <\/p>\n

\"\"Prime video \u2013 MGM+<\/p>\n

If Spider-Noir is keeping the \u201ccanon events\u201d of Spider-Man\u2019s life in place, albeit in a slightly different context, then Ben Reilly\u2019s crimefighting career costing him the love of his life is quintessential Spider-Man storytelling. It\u2019s also a great way to root this series in classic Film Noir tropes \u2013 namely, the broken detective who is haunted by some traumatic event of his past, which is keeping him from being the best investigator\/crime-stopper he can be. In short, it\u2019s everything we hope Spider-Noir will be. <\/p>\n

Spider-Noir will premiere its entire season on MGM+ and Prime Video on May 27th. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spider-Noir is going to be the first chapter in Sony\u2019s Spider-Man TV Universe, and will feature a fan-favorite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397,203368,53235,26820,95816],"class_list":["post-433699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-nic-cage","tag-regular-feature","tag-spider-man","tag-spider-noir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}