{"id":1956954,"date":"2026-05-26T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1956954"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:47:00","slug":"spider-noir-interviews-stars-and-showrunner-talk-live-action-world-of-spidey-and-marvel-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1956954","title":{"rendered":"‘Spider-Noir’ Interviews: Stars and Showrunner Talk Live-Action World of Spidey and Marvel Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"
Spider-Noir<\/span><\/span>, the live-action TV series about a Spider-Man variant in the 1930s, premieres this Wednesday on Prime Video<\/span><\/span>. Led by Nicolas Cage, who voiced Spider-Man Noir in the animated Spider-Verse films, the show dips into Marvel comic book lore and centers on an entirely different version of the web-slinging hero. He’s\u00a0not <\/em>an alternate version of Peter Parker, he’s Ben Reilly in this universe — aka Spider-Noir.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s a unique, standalone story helmed by showrunner Oren Uziel that’s separate from all the other Spider-Man movies and shows that already exist (nope, it’s not a spinoff of any kind). That gave the creative team the opportunity to introduce Spider-Noir’s multiversal cast of characters. While Cage brings a sense of familiarity to the show in a fresh way, the series also includes Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy, Jack Huston as Sandman and Abraham Popoola, who plays Tombstone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leaning heavily into the mystery crime-drama style of noir, Spider-Noir lets viewers get acquainted with villains and antiheroes whose names may ring a bell thanks to Sony’s movies or Marvel comics. Yet, after watching all the episodes, I can say, despite a few familiar character names, it’s a take we haven’t really seen before — it’s mature and suspenseful, with complicated relationships and conflicted criminals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, it’s another way to see Marvel characters and mythology manifest on screen, and Li, Popoola and Huston had distinct reasons for why they were attracted to their roles.<\/p>\n\n
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Abraham Popoola as Tombstone, Jack Huston as Sandman and Andrew Lewis Caldwell as Megawatt, three hired hands in Spider-Noir. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“The writing. The groundedness of this world that makes every single character in this series so human,” explained Li. “Even within their powers, they’re still human, being dealt a really difficult card.”<\/p>\n
Taking place in New York City during the Great Depression, Spider-Noir weaves elements of the time period into its plot. World War I and Prohibition are part of the series’ conversations and storyline, and Popoola was struck by the history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“For me, it was the era,” he said. “It’s such a rich era historically. So interesting, so complex, so stylish, so fun. To get to throw a character that everyone knows and recognizes, for decades now, into that situation is a real delight and a real treat.”<\/p>\n
Huston echoed his co-stars and added, “It’s a real treat to be doing something that I think hasn’t really been done before.” The actor pointed to the show’s rendering in two visual formats for viewing, which Prime Video has dubbed “Authentic Black & White” and “True-Hue Full Color.”<\/p>\n
“To be able to offer this in black-and-white and color, that hasn’t happened before,” he said. “It’s very hard to do something unique and original, and this is exactly that. I feel very special to be part of the whole process.”<\/p>\n\n
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Spider-Noir is streaming in color and in black-and-white formats. In true noir style, Huston and Li’s characters are entangled in a web of secrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Swing back to 2023, when it was first announced that a new Spider-Noir story would hit the screen with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller were on board for the project. Along with Amy Pascal (the producer and exec behind Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films, the Venom franchise and Spider-Verse movies), the pair teamed up with Uziel to shape Spider-Noir into a TV production.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I mentioned to Uziel that, rather than hit us with lots of action scenes, the show is grounded in smartly paced mystery and drama. What inspired the storytelling in Spider-Noir and even the character choices we see in Tombstone, Flint, Silvermane and Cat Hardy? Turns out, Humphrey Bogart and Cage had something to do with that.<\/p>\n
“When I first sat down with Nic [Cage], and we talked a lot about it, we realized we both had a real love and kind of an encyclopedic knowledge of film noir,” he shared. He explained how that drove the story with lots of discussion around “What if you could make a Bogart movie where Bogart just happened to be Spider-Man?”<\/p>\n\n
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Nicolas Cage plays a brooding Spider-Man variant in Spider-Noir.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dedicated to these themes, the pair drew from their cinematic mind vaults (Uziel cited The Third Man, Double Indemnity, Miller’s Crossing, LA Confidential and Casablanca) to map out a vision for the series. Draped in shadowy imagery, the show has all the ingredients of what you’d expect in the genre: the pessimistic detective, a femme fatale, backstabbing and flashbacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Though Spider-Noir is true to its name, there are some small influences from other Marvel hero films sprinkled in, according to Uziel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I grew up and revered the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies, so there’s a sort of aesthetic that I love, and I really wanted to infuse some of that into the old noir aesthetic as well,” he said. “I think there’s sort of a practicality to a lot of what he did there, and an energy that I grew up loving.”<\/p>\n
All eight episodes of Spider-Noir<\/span><\/span> can be binged on Prime Video on Wednesday, May 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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KOURTNEE JACKSON<\/span><\/div>\n
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Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and streaming platforms.<\/span> See full bio <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Spider-Noir<\/span><\/span>, the live-action TV series about a Spider-Man variant in the 1930s, premieres this Wednesday on Prime Video<\/span><\/span>. Led by Nicolas Cage, who voiced Spider-Man Noir in the animated Spider-Verse films, the show dips into Marvel comic book lore and centers on an entirely different version of the web-slinging hero. He’s\u00a0not <\/em>an alternate version of Peter Parker, he’s Ben Reilly in this universe — aka Spider-Noir.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s a unique, standalone story helmed by showrunner Oren Uziel that’s separate from all the other Spider-Man movies and shows that already exist (nope, it’s not a spinoff of any kind). That gave the creative team the opportunity to introduce Spider-Noir’s multiversal cast of characters. While Cage brings a sense of familiarity to the show in a fresh way, the series also includes Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy, Jack Huston as Sandman and Abraham Popoola, who plays Tombstone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leaning heavily into the mystery crime-drama style of noir, Spider-Noir lets viewers get acquainted with villains and antiheroes whose names may ring a bell thanks to Sony’s movies or Marvel comics. Yet, after watching all the episodes, I can say, despite a few familiar character names, it’s a take we haven’t really seen before — it’s mature and suspenseful, with complicated relationships and conflicted criminals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, it’s another way to see Marvel characters and mythology manifest on screen, and Li, Popoola and Huston had distinct reasons for why they were attracted to their roles.<\/p>\n\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n
Abraham Popoola as Tombstone, Jack Huston as Sandman and Andrew Lewis Caldwell as Megawatt, three hired hands in Spider-Noir. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“The writing. The groundedness of this world that makes every single character in this series so human,” explained Li. “Even within their powers, they’re still human, being dealt a really difficult card.”<\/p>\n
Taking place in New York City during the Great Depression, Spider-Noir weaves elements of the time period into its plot. World War I and Prohibition are part of the series’ conversations and storyline, and Popoola was struck by the history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“For me, it was the era,” he said. “It’s such a rich era historically. So interesting, so complex, so stylish, so fun. To get to throw a character that everyone knows and recognizes, for decades now, into that situation is a real delight and a real treat.”<\/p>\n
Huston echoed his co-stars and added, “It’s a real treat to be doing something that I think hasn’t really been done before.” The actor pointed to the show’s rendering in two visual formats for viewing, which Prime Video has dubbed “Authentic Black & White” and “True-Hue Full Color.”<\/p>\n
“To be able to offer this in black-and-white and color, that hasn’t happened before,” he said. “It’s very hard to do something unique and original, and this is exactly that. I feel very special to be part of the whole process.”<\/p>\n\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n
Spider-Noir is streaming in color and in black-and-white formats. In true noir style, Huston and Li’s characters are entangled in a web of secrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Swing back to 2023, when it was first announced that a new Spider-Noir story would hit the screen with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller were on board for the project. Along with Amy Pascal (the producer and exec behind Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films, the Venom franchise and Spider-Verse movies), the pair teamed up with Uziel to shape Spider-Noir into a TV production.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I mentioned to Uziel that, rather than hit us with lots of action scenes, the show is grounded in smartly paced mystery and drama. What inspired the storytelling in Spider-Noir and even the character choices we see in Tombstone, Flint, Silvermane and Cat Hardy? Turns out, Humphrey Bogart and Cage had something to do with that.<\/p>\n
“When I first sat down with Nic [Cage], and we talked a lot about it, we realized we both had a real love and kind of an encyclopedic knowledge of film noir,” he shared. He explained how that drove the story with lots of discussion around “What if you could make a Bogart movie where Bogart just happened to be Spider-Man?”<\/p>\n\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n
Nicolas Cage plays a brooding Spider-Man variant in Spider-Noir.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dedicated to these themes, the pair drew from their cinematic mind vaults (Uziel cited The Third Man, Double Indemnity, Miller’s Crossing, LA Confidential and Casablanca) to map out a vision for the series. Draped in shadowy imagery, the show has all the ingredients of what you’d expect in the genre: the pessimistic detective, a femme fatale, backstabbing and flashbacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Though Spider-Noir is true to its name, there are some small influences from other Marvel hero films sprinkled in, according to Uziel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I grew up and revered the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies, so there’s a sort of aesthetic that I love, and I really wanted to infuse some of that into the old noir aesthetic as well,” he said. “I think there’s sort of a practicality to a lot of what he did there, and an energy that I grew up loving.”<\/p>\n
All eight episodes of Spider-Noir<\/span><\/span> can be binged on Prime Video on Wednesday, May 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Spider-Noir<\/span><\/span>, the live-action TV series about a Spider-Man variant in the 1930s, premieres this Wednesday on Prime Video<\/span><\/span>. Led by Nicolas Cage, who voiced Spider-Man Noir in the animated Spider-Verse films, the show dips into Marvel comic book lore and centers on an entirely different version of the web-slinging hero. He’s\u00a0not <\/em>an alternate version of Peter Parker, he’s Ben Reilly in this universe — aka Spider-Noir.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s a unique, standalone story helmed by showrunner Oren Uziel that’s separate from all the other Spider-Man movies and shows that already exist (nope, it’s not a spinoff of any kind). That gave the creative team the opportunity to introduce Spider-Noir’s multiversal cast of characters. While Cage brings a sense of familiarity to the show in a fresh way, the series also includes Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy, Jack Huston as Sandman and Abraham Popoola, who plays Tombstone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leaning heavily into the mystery crime-drama style of noir, Spider-Noir lets viewers get acquainted with villains and antiheroes whose names may ring a bell thanks to Sony’s movies or Marvel comics. Yet, after watching all the episodes, I can say, despite a few familiar character names, it’s a take we haven’t really seen before — it’s mature and suspenseful, with complicated relationships and conflicted criminals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, it’s another way to see Marvel characters and mythology manifest on screen, and Li, Popoola and Huston had distinct reasons for why they were attracted to their roles.<\/p>\n\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n
Abraham Popoola as Tombstone, Jack Huston as Sandman and Andrew Lewis Caldwell as Megawatt, three hired hands in Spider-Noir. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“The writing. The groundedness of this world that makes every single character in this series so human,” explained Li. “Even within their powers, they’re still human, being dealt a really difficult card.”<\/p>\n
Taking place in New York City during the Great Depression, Spider-Noir weaves elements of the time period into its plot. World War I and Prohibition are part of the series’ conversations and storyline, and Popoola was struck by the history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“For me, it was the era,” he said. “It’s such a rich era historically. So interesting, so complex, so stylish, so fun. To get to throw a character that everyone knows and recognizes, for decades now, into that situation is a real delight and a real treat.”<\/p>\n
Huston echoed his co-stars and added, “It’s a real treat to be doing something that I think hasn’t really been done before.” The actor pointed to the show’s rendering in two visual formats for viewing, which Prime Video has dubbed “Authentic Black & White” and “True-Hue Full Color.”<\/p>\n
“To be able to offer this in black-and-white and color, that hasn’t happened before,” he said. “It’s very hard to do something unique and original, and this is exactly that. I feel very special to be part of the whole process.”<\/p>\n\n
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Spider-Noir is streaming in color and in black-and-white formats. In true noir style, Huston and Li’s characters are entangled in a web of secrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Swing back to 2023, when it was first announced that a new Spider-Noir story would hit the screen with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller were on board for the project. Along with Amy Pascal (the producer and exec behind Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films, the Venom franchise and Spider-Verse movies), the pair teamed up with Uziel to shape Spider-Noir into a TV production.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I mentioned to Uziel that, rather than hit us with lots of action scenes, the show is grounded in smartly paced mystery and drama. What inspired the storytelling in Spider-Noir and even the character choices we see in Tombstone, Flint, Silvermane and Cat Hardy? Turns out, Humphrey Bogart and Cage had something to do with that.<\/p>\n
“When I first sat down with Nic [Cage], and we talked a lot about it, we realized we both had a real love and kind of an encyclopedic knowledge of film noir,” he shared. He explained how that drove the story with lots of discussion around “What if you could make a Bogart movie where Bogart just happened to be Spider-Man?”<\/p>\n\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n
Nicolas Cage plays a brooding Spider-Man variant in Spider-Noir.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dedicated to these themes, the pair drew from their cinematic mind vaults (Uziel cited The Third Man, Double Indemnity, Miller’s Crossing, LA Confidential and Casablanca) to map out a vision for the series. Draped in shadowy imagery, the show has all the ingredients of what you’d expect in the genre: the pessimistic detective, a femme fatale, backstabbing and flashbacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Though Spider-Noir is true to its name, there are some small influences from other Marvel hero films sprinkled in, according to Uziel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I grew up and revered the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies, so there’s a sort of aesthetic that I love, and I really wanted to infuse some of that into the old noir aesthetic as well,” he said. “I think there’s sort of a practicality to a lot of what he did there, and an energy that I grew up loving.”<\/p>\n
All eight episodes of Spider-Noir<\/span><\/span> can be binged on Prime Video on Wednesday, May 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n
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