{"id":488095,"date":"2026-06-11T20:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/488095\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:07:12","slug":"spider-noir-team-on-german-expressionism-nicolas-cage-making-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/488095\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Spider Noir’ Team on German Expressionism, Nicolas Cage Making TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGiving \u201cSpider Noir<\/a>\u201d viewers the choose-your-own-adventure option between watching the Prime Video series in color or black-and-white brought something new to the world of superhero shows.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBlack-and-white was an opportunity for fans of the comic book world to get a taste of German expressionism, hard lighting and an aesthetic they might not be familiar with,\u201d showrunner Oren Uziel told Variety\u2019s chief awards editor Clayton Davis during Amazon\u2019s \u201cSpider Noir\u201d event on June 5. \u201cIf you\u2019re a fan of film noir, it\u2019s a chance to see a Humphrey Bogart-like character in a very vibrant, poppy, saturated color palette.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first season of \u201cSpider Noir,\u201d currently streaming on Prime Video, tells the story of how detective Ben Reilly (Nicolas Cage<\/a>) became the web-slinging hero Spider-Noir. Set in 1930s New York, the series is inspired by the \u201cSpider-Man Noir\u201d Marvel comic books.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Oscar-winning Cage admitted he had to \u201cget the snob hat off\u201d after not starring in a TV show before \u201cSpider Noir\u201d (he was featured in a 1981 ABC pilot \u201cThe Best of Times\u201d that was never picked up for series.) When his teenage son sat him down to watch \u201cBreaking Bad,\u201d he realized how much could be gained from long-form storytelling.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[Oren and I] started planting little seeds, that the character would start to move like a spider and we would explain the different vocal intonations \u2014 keeping it enigmatic, but later in the show showing that he\u2019s watching the old movies and he\u2019s reprogramming his body to become more human again,\u201d Cage said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we would have had the time to find that in a normal feature film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLamorne Morris, who won an Emmy for \u201cFargo\u201d while he was in production on \u201cSpider Noir,\u201d explained how his initial interest in being a sports journalist informed his portrayal of reporter Robbie Robertson. When doing research on the original comics, he stumbled upon a journalist named Ted Poston.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt the time, I hadn\u2019t known anything about him. They call him the \u2018Dean of Black Journalism.\u2019 I have this strange suspicion that Robbie from the original comics was based on Ted Poston because they share a similar walk,\u201d Morris said. \u201cSo when I\u2019m doing research on Robbie, I start developing my character around Ted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKaren Rodriguez, who plays secretary-turned-investigator Janet Ruiz, was asked about bringing Latino representation to the show. \u201cShe\u2019s a woman who speaks her mind, who doesn\u2019t let society tell her what she is or cannot be and that she surrounds herself within a community, particularly with Ben and Robbie that allow her to be,\u201d she said. \u201cSo it\u2019s both a singular empowerment, but also her story is that you actually get empowered through community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJack Huston, who portrays the Sandman\/Flint Marko, recalled getting deep into history with Cage and the opportunity to honor the classic films that \u201cSpider Noir\u201d references.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat a treat that we get to tread the boards of where people were on the backlots of Warner Bros. and MGM and Universal,\u201d Huston said. \u201cThis is where Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney and all the great directors and everybody were walking to these sets and doing something. We don\u2019t get the opportunity to do something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giving \u201cSpider Noir\u201d viewers the choose-your-own-adventure option between watching the Prime Video series in color or black-and-white brought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[225631,146,85,46,7206,95816],"class_list":["post-488095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amazon-spidernoir-booster","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-spider-noir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488095","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=488095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}