{"id":606718,"date":"2026-04-26T02:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606718\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T02:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:51:08","slug":"nicolas-cage-as-web-slinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606718\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Cage as Web Slinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/trailer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trailer_1\" data-tag=\"trailer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trailer<\/a> for Prime Video\u2019s Spider-Man-based drama series features a gumshoe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nicolas-cage\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicolas-cage_1\" data-tag=\"nicolas-cage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Cage<\/a> facing off against Brendan Gleeson\u2019s super villain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMarking the Oscar winner\u2019s first leading TV series role, Cage plays Ben Reilly, an aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city\u2019s one and only superhero. In the new trailer (below), Reilly discovers his powers and faces off against an Irish crime boss (Gleeson), who is apparently Silvermane from the comics. The trailer was dropped in Mexico City for the pop culture festival CCXPMX26. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe company has a unique presentation for the project:\u00a0Spider-Noir\u00a0will be available to stream in two different ways, in \u201cAuthentic Black &amp; White\u201d and \u201cTrue-Hue Full Color\u201d (the original comics were rather muted and monochromatic, but in color).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe project is based on the comic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/spider-man-noir\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spider-man-noir_1\" data-tag=\"spider-man-noir\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spider-Man Noir<\/a>, but the project is considered a stand-alone story and not part of the Sony movies or the Into the Spider-Verse franchise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe full cast includes Lamorne Morris (Fargo), Li Jun Li (Sinners), Karen Rodriguez (The Hunting Wives), Abraham Popoola (Slow Horses), Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire) and Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSpider-Noir will premiere May 27, and the episodes will be dropped as a binge release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSpider-Noir\u00a0is produced by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sony\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony<\/a>\u00a0Pictures Television for MGM+ and Prime Video. Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag) directed and executive produced the first two episodes. Oren Uziel (The Lost City) and Steve Lightfoot (The Punisher) serve as co-showrunners and executive producers. Uziel and Lightfoot developed the series with the team behind\u00a0Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official trailer for Prime Video\u2019s Spider-Man-based drama series features a gumshoe Nicolas Cage facing off against Brendan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,67449,263710,48481,9552],"class_list":{"0":"post-606718","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-nicolas-cage","11":"tag-spider-man-noir","12":"tag-trailer","13":"tag-trailers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}