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Spider-Noir Sets May 27 Debut as Showrunner Reveals Ben Reilly’s Core Team

A grittier tone includes a protagonist who swears, breaking a long-standing Spider-Man convention.

Overview

  • Spider-Noir will premiere on May 27 on MGM+ and Prime Video, bringing a noir take on the hero to television.
  • Showrunner Oren Uziel says the story centers on a three-person unit of Ben, secretary Janet (Karen Rodriguez), and journalist Robbie Robertson (Lamorne Morris).
  • Set in 1930s New York, Nicolas Cage plays an older private investigator known as The Spider in an eight-episode live-action series.
  • Empire reports Ben Reilly is grieving a "tragic loss," while fan theories linking the trauma to a Gwen-like death remain unconfirmed.
  • Coverage notes Cage is not reprising his Into the Spider-Verse Spider-Man Noir and is instead playing a separate iteration with his own backstory.