Nicolas Cage is placing on the Spidey go well with for Amazon.
Amazon, forward of its first upfront presentation Tuesday, introduced that it’s transferring ahead with Noir, a live-action sequence based mostly on the Marvel comedian Spider-Man Noir.
Cage will star within the sequence, which was first put in improvement greater than a 12 months in the past on the streamer. Noir revolves round an getting older and down on his luck personal investigator (Cage) in Nineteen Thirties New York, who’s pressured to grapple along with his previous life as town’s one and solely superhero.
The sequence is produced by Sony Photos Tv and Amazon MGM Studios. Noir is a part of the bigger Marvel universe that Amazon is assembling, with the streamer already engaged on Silk: Spider Society with The Strolling Useless alum Angela Kang.
Chris Miller and Phil Lord, the producers of Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse animated motion pictures, are overseeing Amazon’s Marvel franchise. The duo first introduced the Spider-Man Noir character to screens with Spider-Verse and can exec produce Noir alongside showrunners Oren Uziel (22 Leap Avenue) and Steve Lightfoot (Netflix’s Marvel present, Punisher). Amy Pascal, who has a hand in all of Sony’s Spider-Man diversifications, may also be credited as an exec producer.
“Increasing the Marvel universe with Noir is a uniquely particular alternative and we’re honored to convey this sequence to our international Prime Video clients,” mentioned Vernon Sanders, head of tv at Amazon MGM Studios. “The extraordinarily proficient Nicolas Cage is a perfect alternative for our new superhero and the completed producing crew with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal and the unimaginable crew at Sony is devoted to increasing this franchise in probably the most genuine means.”
Like Silk, Noir will first debut on MGM+ — the premium cable community previously often called Epix that’s now owned by Amazon — earlier than each exhibits debut on the streamer.
“We’re completely thrilled to have Nicolas Cage starring on this sequence! Nobody else may convey such pathos, ache and coronary heart to this singular character. Together with our sensible producers and companions at Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video, we couldn’t ask for a greater crew to discover this reimagining of such an iconic character in Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters,” mentioned Katherine Pope, president of Sony Photos Tv Studios.
Lord and Miller moved their general deal from Disney’s twentieth Tv to Sony in April 2019 and, as a part of the nine-figure pact, had been handed management of the studio’s Marvel slate. Sony retains rights to characters together with Spider-Man (and all his villains, like Inexperienced Goblin); Venom (the Tim Hardy movies); Morbius (i.e. the live-action characteristic with Jared Leto); and Black Cat and Silver Sable (each beforehand in improvement on the characteristic facet). Choose TV initiatives associated to Sony’s Marvel characters shall be produced in partnership with former Sony Photos Leisure co-chairman Pascal. Additionally presumably on the desk: all of the characters from Into the Spider-Verse.
A premiere date for Noir (or Silk) has not but been decided.
Cage, whose huge credit embody Leaving Las Vegas and Face/Off, is repped by WME, Stride Administration and Goodman Genow.