{"id":296916,"date":"2026-02-22T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/296916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:34:11","slug":"22-years-later-spider-mans-new-tv-show-is-ending-marvels-nastiest-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/296916\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Years Later, Spider-Man\u2019s New TV Show is Ending Marvel\u2019s Nastiest Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spider-Man<\/a> movies, across the board, are fairly hit-or-miss. There\u2019s at least one movie in all three live-action Spider-Man franchises that is considered that series\u2019 dud, for instance, and there\u2019s an argument to be made that there hasn\u2019t been a widely celebrated and critically acclaimed Spider-Man movie<\/a> that wasn\u2019t in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Spider-Man 2 in 2004, a whopping 22 years ago.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say that the MCU Spider-Man movies<\/a> are perfect, but Sony has undeniably had a lot more Spider-Man-related misses than it has had hits concerning live-action. This curse has been further exacerbated by Sony\u2019s most recent Spider-Man-adjacent outings that have starred villains and side characters, but Amazon Prime Video\u2019s Spider-Noir show<\/a> is finally featuring a Spider-Man as its lead and seems like it could be a surprisingly great Sony\/Marvel entry based on its recent trailer.<\/p>\n

Sony\u2019s Spider-Man Curse Can End With Spider-Noir<\/p>\n

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\n Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly in a club in Spider-Noir<\/p>\n

Spider-Noir\u2019s astonishing true-hue and black-and-white visuals, as well as a predictably magnetic Nicolas Cage performance, are doing a lot of the show\u2019s heavy lifting. The story and its lore are sure to be divisive, as Spider-Noir is swapping Peter Parker for Ben Reilly<\/a> and isn\u2019t related to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, whose animated Noir Spider-Man (also played by Nicolas Cage, who evidently inspired this live-action spin-off) is apparently a separate iteration.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, it looks tremendously fun and has a high enough production budget for fans to salivate over a four-second clip of Spider-Man web-swinging. If it can lean into those strengths and be a halfway decent Spider-Man Noir adaptation, Sony will have made a considerable comeback in the realm of live-action Spider-Man.<\/p>\n

Spider-Noir Shoulders a Brutal Weight<\/p>\n

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\n Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly on the top of the roof in Spider-Noir<\/p>\n

This is a lot of pressure to put on a spin-off TV show. That said, Sony\u2019s Marvel projects<\/a> have earned a great deal of skepticism due to how poorly received the likes of Morbius, the Venom trilogy, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter are.<\/p>\n

Sony somehow struck non-MCU gold with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and spinning multiple related projects out of it\u2014Spider-Noir, as well as Spider-Gwen and Spider-Punk movies<\/a> reportedly in development\u2014was a no-brainer. Of course, virtually nobody asked for the Spider-Man villain-centric movies that Sony was unapologetically committed to, and so it\u2019s nothing short of a miracle that Spider-Noir exists and actually looks special.<\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 27, 2026<\/p>\n

Network<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMGM+<\/p>\n

Showrunner<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOren Uziel, Steve Lightfoot<\/p>\n

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Lamorne Morris<\/p>\n

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