{"id":839021,"date":"2026-09-07T02:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/839021\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T02:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:08:10","slug":"nicolas-cage-reacts-to-spider-noir-cancellation-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/839021\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Cage Reacts To ‘Spider-Noir’ Cancellation (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Spider-Noir<\/a> star Nicolas Cage<\/a> is speaking out about Prime Video\u2019s decision not to proceed with a second season<\/a> of the superhero series. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor me, one season is perfect, having said what I wanted to say with this dangerous, innovative, pop-art Spider-Man,\u201d Cage said in a statement to Deadline, adding, \u201cOnwards, upwards, inwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCage\u2019s reaction to the cancellations echoes comments he had made in interviews tied to Spider-Noir\u2019s May release, first on MGM+\u2019s linear channel and then on Prime Video\u2019s streaming platform. In them, he sounded unsure about the series\u2019 renewal chances but happy with what he and the producers did in Season 1, telling Variety that \u201cwhether it happens or not, all of us achieved what we set out to do, and it works on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIndeed, Season 1 told largely a complete story with just a few loose threads left.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpider-Noir, which marked Cage\u2019s first TV role, has been praised by both reviewers and viewers, earning a 92% critics score and 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and landing 11 Emmy Award nominations \u2014 the most of any Prime Video series in 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tIts high price tag and respectable but not blockbuster viewership may have led to the cancellation but Spider-Noir, from co-showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot and fellow executive producers Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal, has left a mark, including with its unique release in both color and black and white. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe series presented an acting challenge to Oscar winner Cage who spoke to Deadline<\/a> of his inspirations. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wanted to go back to those old \u201930s and \u201940s movies and watch some Howard Hawks and pick up the speed of delivery from those actors,\u201d he said in June. \u201cI also thought of Double Indemnity with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck and tried to embody that essence, mannerisms and vocalization to collide it with Stan Lee\u2019s masterpiece of Spider-Man and see what spark I could generate. Kind of like a Roy Lichtenstein painting, I wanted to do something that would be both new for me and hopefully for the viewer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCage remains in business with Prime Video. Next for him is the streamer\u2019s movie Madden, in which he portrays legendary football coach and broadcaster John Madden. It premieres November 18. <\/p>\n

\n\tGoing forward, Cage plans to continue doing streaming projects.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was friendly to streaming a long time ago before it was cool. [The media would say], \u2018Oh, he\u2019s doing straight-to-streaming movies,\u2019 like it was unheard of, like, shame on me. But now, everything is going that way,\u201d he told Deadline in the same interview. \u201cI knew streaming would ultimately keep actors working and keep the work viewable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Spider-Noir star Nicolas Cage is speaking out about Prime Video\u2019s decision not to proceed with a second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,67449,164008],"class_list":["post-839021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-spider-noir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839021","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=839021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}