When Marvel‘s Spider-Noir TV series debuts on Prime Video this spring, the show will be available in both color and black-and-white. It’s nice of Marvel to give us the option, much like it did with the studio’s TV special Werewolf By Night in 2022. To get fans hyped for either version, Prime Video is debuting a gallery of new images for the upcoming crime series, starring Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly, a.k.a. Spider-Noir.
UPDATE: A teaser trailer has dropped online and is available in the embed above! Contrastly, you can watch the “True-Hue” version of the teaser below.
Cage on Spider-Noir having two formats
Speaking with Cage about the upcoming series’ dual-format presentation, the Spider-Verse voice actor said, “The truth is, they both work and they’re beautiful for different reasons,” Cage tells Esquire. “The color is super saturated and gorgeous. I think teenage viewers will appreciate the color, but I also want them to have the option. If they want to experience the concept in black and white, maybe that would instill some interest in them to look at earlier movies and enjoy that as an art form as well.”
Spider-Noir has Cage playing an aging, down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York forced to grapple with his past as the city’s only superhero. The show consists of eight 45-minute episodes. Cage has said, “One of the things that I like about this potential show is that it’s fantasy. It’s not really people beating people up. Monsters are involved.”
Who is Ben Reilly?
Cage’s character is Ben Reilly: A retired superhero with the powers of Spider-Man who is too old and broken, both figuratively and literally, to suit up the way he used to. Instead, he takes low-level PI cases and stays out of those involving high-profile names, like the Mayor’s. Through flashbacks, we learn about his past heroics and failures that led him to this point. He is charming, but weathered, and the pilot does an excellent job of setting him up for a good character arc moving forward.
Webbing up new Spider-Noir images
In the new Spider-Noir images, we get a few shots of Cage’s Ben Reilly, both in his civilian clothes and dressed as Spider-Noir. In addition to Reilly looking out at a corrupt world, we get a shot of Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson doing some digging, Karen Rodriguez as Janet doing “research,” and Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy, whose siren song ushers disaster into the club.
How will you watch Spider-Noir?
What do you think about Spider-Noir arriving in color and black-and-white? Which version will you watch? I’ll want to watch the black-and-white version, but my wife will likely want to see all the pretty colors. That means I’ll need to watch it twice! Oh, what a cruel world! Straight up, though, I’ve been waiting for Spider-Noir ever since it was announced. I love Cage, the character, and period pieces. Hell, I love gritty detective tales too. There isn’t an angle of Spider-Noir that isn’t working for me so far. Don’t let me down, Marvel!
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