Prime Video has released a latest trailer for its upcoming live-action series, Spider-Black, starring Nicolas Cage, and once again is released in two formats: one in black and white (below) and another in color (above), which the showrunners call “True Hue.” Seriously, the more images we see of this series, the more eager we are to know if it lives up to its marketing. And the final trailer, which really highlights the deadpan humor and is set to “” by Amy Winehouse.Back to black”—is very promising.
As previously reportedMarvel Comics created its “noir” line in 2009, reinterpreting familiar Marvel characters in an alternate universe, usually set during the Great Depression in the United States. A version of the character Spider-Noir, voiced by Cage, appeared briefly in the animated masterpieces. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Through the Spider-Verse (2023). (He is scheduled to reprise that role in the next Beyond the Spider-Verse.)
Cage plays Ben Reilly, a tough private investigator with a secret superhero identity, The Spider. According to the official premise: “Spider-Black tells the story of Ben Reilly, an experienced and down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to deal with his past life, after a deeply personal tragedy, as the city’s only superhero.
In addition to Cage’s Ben Reilly/The Spider, the cast includes Lamorne Morris as Reilly’s friend Robbie Robertson, a freelance journalist who clings to optimism in the face of his friend’s cynicism; Li Jun Li as nightclub singer Cat Hardy, the classic underworld femme fatale (Li based her performance on Anna May Wong, Rita Hayworth and Lauren Bacall); Karen Rodriguez as Reilly’s secretary, Janet; Abraham Popoola as a World War I veteran; Jack Huston as a bodyguard named Flint Marko who becomes (as we see in the new trailer) the classic villain Sandman; Brendan Gleeson as New York mob boss Silvermane, who is being targeted for assassination; Lukas Haas as one of Silvermane’s subordinates; Richard Robichaux as editor of the Daily Bugle; and Kai Caster.
