The series stars Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Jack Huston, and Karen Rodriguez. It is produced by Sony Pictures Television and based on the Marvel comic series Spider-Man Noir. The story follows Nicolas Cage as private investigator Ben Reilly, who becomes a superhero in 1930s New York City after a personal tragedy.
The series is executive produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who also worked on the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse franchise. According to multiple reports, streaming viewers will have the choice to watch a color or monochrome version of the show. At a Deadline event, the filmmakers revealed that Nicolas Cage decided to play the character as 70% Humphrey Bogart and 30% Bugs Bunny.
One of the things that you don’t think about with Noir is that you’re like, ‘It’s super serious.’ But Bogart always had a twinkle in his eye and he was always doing something clever, and he and Bugs Bunny have more in common than you might think.
" Phil Lord added, "Yeah, there's like a playfulness to it, right? And there's a playfulness to Nic – I think that's why he's so iconic and there's a playfulness to [showrunner] Oren [Uziel], who we worked with on the Jump Street movies. " The series was developed as a stand-alone project after Cage initially voiced the character in the first Spider-Verse movie.
Yeah, there’s like a playfulness to it, right? And there’s a playfulness to Nic – I think that’s why he’s so iconic and there’s a playfulness to [showrunner] Oren [Uziel], who we worked with on the Jump Street movies. And so the idea is that the show is: it is a big character drama, it is an amazing mystery, it’s a big event television, but it’s also light on its feet.
When the idea of us making a live-action Spider show came up, this was the first idea that we had. Because it felt like it was a contained universe. It was its own thing.
The thing that I love about a noir is it’s about people in impossible situations, and the thing that Amy Pascal always taught us about Spider-Man is it’s not about flying around. It’s about what’s going on inside these guys and how challenged they are trying to live their lives as human beings and also live their lives as heroes at the same time.