{"id":418673,"date":"2026-02-10T21:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418673\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:02:08","slug":"new-details-on-ben-reilly-name-change-and-who-is-playing-silvermane-black-cat-sandman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418673\/","title":{"rendered":"New Details On Ben Reilly Name Change And Who Is Playing Silvermane, Black Cat, Sandman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Esquire<\/a>, we have some major new Spider-Noir details ahead of the show’s Prime Video launch this spring. As we mentioned a little earlier today<\/a>, this version of the character doesn’t go by “Spider-Man.” Instead, he’s “The Spider,” a nod to heroes from this era like The Spirit and The Shadow.<\/p>\n

That’s far from the end of the world, but many fans have questioned the decision to rename the Peter Parker Variant as Ben Reilly. In the comics, he’s Peter’s clone and adopts that moniker as a mix of\u00a0Uncle Ben and May Parker’s maiden name.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While this likely has something to do with Sony’s deal with Marvel Studios to share the web-slinger, co-showrunner\u00a0Oren Uziel tells the site, “Peter Parker feels very synonymous with a high school kid. Boyish. On his way up.\u00a0Ben Reilly has already gone through the entire arc and has seen it all.”<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s over it, and trying to move past it. But his past kind of keeps coming back to haunt him. It’s just a different version that we haven’t seen before.”<\/p>\n

Executive producers\u00a0Phil Lord and Christopher Miller also addressed the change, with the latter saying, “This character’s very different from the Peter Parker from the movies. He’s older and jaded, and not afraid to punch a guy in the face drunkenly.” Lord noted, “He already had his Chinatown disillusionment moment that happened years and years ago.”<\/p>\n

“I have to be coy about the reasons, because you’ll find out,” he continued, before Miller added, “The reason he’s named Ben Riley is explained. We\u2019ll leave it at that.”<\/p>\n

So, that’s going to remain a mystery for now, but we do have a few other big reveals to keep us going. For starters, Brendan Gleeson is playing the mobster known as Silvermane, who, in this series, has been the target of multiple assassination attempts.<\/p>\n

According to the site, Reilly investigates the mobster and learns that the arsonist suspected of setting fire to Silverman’s mansion can create fire in his hands (Spider-Noir’s take on Molten Man, perhaps). It’s then that he runs afoul of Flint Marko, a.k.a. Sandman. He’ll be played by Boardwalk Empire star\u00a0Jack Huston.<\/p>\n

“In all the great detective stories, you have two cases that sort of come together, and you realise you’re actually working the same thing,” Uziel teased. “He\u2019s a guy getting dragged into a much larger fight that he doesn’t really want to be a part of. Silvermane is the big bad, but what’s happening to Silvermane connects back to Ben’s past and gets him spiralling deeper and deeper into his own origins.”<\/p>\n

Lamorne Morris (New Girl)\u00a0is Robbie Robertson, a freelance journalist and Ben’s ally. Janet, meanwhile, is played by\u00a0Karen Rodriguez (The Hunting Wives)\u00a0and serves as the private eye’s trusted secretary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Finally, we have Li Jun Li’s Cat Hardy,\u00a0nightclub chanteuse who lures Reilly into the underworld conspiracy at the heart of the series. She is indeed a new take on the Black Cat, a.k.a. Felicia Hardy (you can get a first look at the character here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“Really, she\u2019s Rita Hayworth, who was so great in Gilda and Lady from Shanghai, and then a little bit of Lauren Bacall, because Bogey and Bacall go so well together,” Uziel explained. “There’s some Kim Basinger from L.A. Confidential, in terms of how she fits into everything. She’s an amalgam of a lot of different things.”<\/p>\n

Marvel fans have spent a long time waiting for Black Cat’s live-action debut, but whether we’ll see Cat suit up is a mystery. The name change, however, surely opens the door to Marvel Studios still doing something with a comic-accurate version of the cat burglar in Tom Holland’s Spider-Man franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oren Uziel (Mortal Kombat) and Steve Lightfoot (The Punisher) are co-showrunners on\u00a0Spider-Noir.\u00a0Harry Bradbeer is set to direct and executive-produce\u00a0the first two episodes of the series.<\/p>\n

Nicolas Cage will be joined in\u00a0Spider-Noir\u00a0by\u00a0Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin), Abraham Popoola (Atlas,\u00a0The Rig), Li Jun Li (Babylon,\u00a0Sex\/Life) and Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire,\u00a0Ben-Hur).<\/p>\n

Lukas Haas (Inception), Cameron Britton (Mindhunters), Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives,), Michael Kostroff (Wizard of Lies), Scott MacArthur (El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie), Joe Massingill (Barry), Whitney Rice (Suits), Amanda Schull (12 Monkeys), Andrew Caldwell (iZombie),\u00a0Amy Aquino\u00a0(Bosch) Andrew Robinson, (Hellraiser), Kai Caster (Yellowstone), and\u00a0Karen Rodriguez (Swarm) round out the supporting cast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spider-Noir\u00a0will premiere on the MGM+\u00a0linear channel in the U.S. and globally on Prime Video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Esquire, we have some major new Spider-Noir details ahead of the show’s Prime Video launch this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,122246,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-418673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-spider-noir","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}