In Amazon's Live-Action Spider-Man Spinoff Spider-Noir, Nicolas Cage Plays Ben Reilly — Not Peter Parker

Amazon has revealed fresh details about the upcoming Prime Video Spider-Man spinoff series, Spider-Noir, and released new posters for the show.

Spider-Noir is a live-action series based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir. It tells the story of Ben Reilly, played by Nicolas Cage, who is described as “an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.”

This is our first official confirmation that Cage is playing Ben Reilly as opposed to Peter Parker. In the Marvel comics, Ben Reilly, also known as Scarlet Spider, is a clone of Peter Parker/Spider-Man initially tasked with fighting him, but he eventually becomes an ally. Created by writer Gerry Conway, the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #149 (October 1975). Ben Reilly as the Scarlet Spider appears in 2023 animated movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, voiced by Andy Samberg.

Amazon said Spider-Noir will be available in both black and white and color, and released new posters, below, reflecting the difference in look audiences can expect.

Expect a release at some point in 2026, debuting domestically in the U.S. on MGM+’s linear channel, then globally on Prime Video the next day in more than 240 countries and territories thereafter.

The cast includes Nicolas Cage, Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston, and Brendan Gleeson. Guest star cast includes Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice, Amanda Schull, Andrew Caldwell, Amy Aquino, Andrew Robinson, and Kai Caster.

Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag, Killing Eve) directed and executive produced the first two episodes. Oren Uziel (The Lost City, 22 Jump Street) and Steve Lightfoot (Marvel’s The Punisher, Shantaram) serve as co-showrunners and executive producers. Uziel and Lightfoot developed the series with the team behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal.

Speaking of Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the third film in the animated trilogy, is currently set for release on June 18, 2027. Daniel Kaluuya, who played Hobart "Hobie" Brown / Spider-Punk in Across the Spider-Verse, is set to play the same character in Beyond the Spider-Verse (he’s also reportedly set to reprise the role in a Spider-Punk animated spinoff).

Marvin Jones III, who voices supervillain Tombstone in Into the Spider-Verse, is also set to reprise his role for Beyond the Spider-Verse. (He’ll play a live-action version of the character in next year’s MCU movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day, too.)

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