Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse begins with Peter Parker introducing himself to the audience and then declaring, “There’s only one Spider-Man, and you’re looking at him.” Even before he’s proven wrong by Miles Morales taking on the mantle after he dies, and even before a variety of Spider-people—including Peter B. Parker—arrive from the multiverse, he’s proven wrong.
Which is, of course, the point of the Spider-Verse movies: that there are many different ways of being Spider-Man. That premise is ripe for storytelling, at least according to Oren Uziel, showrunner of the upcoming Spider-Noir series on Prime Video. “I know there are others in the works,” Uziel told SFX Magazine (via Total Film). “I’ve talked a bit to the people working on them and I think they are very exciting. They’re following a little bit of that same formula [as Spider-Noir], that same idea of taking a genre and elevating it by putting a Spider-variant into it. It opens up a whole new world, and it’s just an extremely exciting opportunity.”
Uziel knows what he’s talking about. Spider-Noir brings the fedora-wearing Spider-Man from Into the Spider-Verse into live-action. He’ll still be played by Nicolas Cage, but this time is staying into his stylish home dimension, where he’ll do battle with gangster Silvermane (Brendan Gleeson) with the help of secretary Janet (Karen Rodriguez), reporter Robbie Robertson (Lamorne Morris), and (maybe) femme fatale Cat Hardy (Li Jun Li). As seen in the recent trailer, Spider-Noir will translate various tropes from the mainline universe into this hard-boiled reality, including villains Sandman (Jack Huston) and Electro (Joe Massingill).
Spider-Noir obviously leans hard into the tropes of 1940s crime pictures, but Spider-Verse showed that there are tons of other ways to take the concept. Serving alongside Spider-Man Noir was Spider-Ham, voiced by John Mulaney.
