{"id":591876,"date":"2026-05-19T05:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T05:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:19:12","slug":"nicolas-cage-on-turning-down-green-goblin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591876\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Cage On Turning Down Green Goblin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/nic-cage-talks-turning-down-green-goblin.jpg\" data-caption=\"Amazon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/nic-cage-talks-turning-down-green-goblin.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"nic-cage-talks-turning-down-green-goblin\"\/><\/a>Amazon<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Cage says that turning down the role of Norman Osborn\/Green Goblin in Sam Raimi\u2019s first Spider-Man movie back in 2002 was the right call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, that was the right choice at the time\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/nicolas-cage-says-turning-down-the-role-of-green-goblin-in-2002s-spider-man-exclusive-11975117\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> this week while out promoting Amazon\u2019s new \u201cSpider-Noir\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p>Cage tells the outlet he had several conversations with Raimi about potentially suiting up as the nemesis, but declined in order to star in Spike Jonze\u2019s \u201cAdaptation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Willem Dafoe ultimately played the role in \u201cSpider-Man\u201d and reprised it two decades later in 2021\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about playing villains, Cage says: \u201cI\u2019ve played plenty of villains. I like both. I think they\u2019re both important parts of cinema. I would not want to get trapped into doing one thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpider-Noir\u201d follows an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York is forced to grapple with his past life as the city\u2019s one and only superhero.<\/p>\n<p>The series will premiere on May 25th on the MGM+ linear channel and globally on Prime Video on May 27th.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/hope-sequel-script-already-done\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHope\u201d Sequel Script Already Done<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/vin-diesel-defends-fast-furious-at-cannes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vin Diesel Defends \u201cFast &amp; Furious\u201d At Cannes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Nicolas Cage says that turning down the role of Norman Osborn\/Green Goblin in Sam Raimi\u2019s first Spider-Man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591876","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=591876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}