Prime Video's SpiderNoir to Premiere in 2026 with Dual Formats

Prime Video has announced that its upcoming live-action series SpiderNoir, starring Nicolas Cage, will premiere in 2026 and offer viewers a choice between black-and-white and full-color presentations. The eight-episode production reimagines the Marvel Comics character as a gritty tale set in 1930s New York City.

The series follows Ben Reilly, portrayed by Cage, an aging private investigator down on his luck who confronts his former life as the city's sole superhero. This marks a departure from the character's traditional identity in comics and Cage's previous animated portrayal, where he voiced the web-slinger in the 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In SpiderNoir, Reilly operates from a detective office marked with his initials, donning the mask to become the noir-inspired vigilante.

Production wrapped filming in Los Angeles earlier this year, with the show now in post-production. It will debut on MGM+ in the United States before streaming internationally on Prime Video. The project draws from the 2009 Marvel Comics miniseries that introduced SpiderNoir, created by David Hine and Fabrice Sapolsky, which depicted a Great Depression-era Peter Parker fighting crime amid...