Being a fly on the wall should come naturally to your average private-eye. But being a literal wall-crawler? That's something new. This is what distinguishes Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir hero from the other iconic gumshoes who populate our pop culture—but he's also starkly different from any other Spider-Man who has swung across our paths.
Cage makes his TV debut in the series, which Prime Video will stream later this spring. He originally voiced the alt-universe anti-hero in 2018's Into the Spider-Verse, but even that version of the gravel-voiced anti-hero is different from the one in the new show. Cage is playing Ben Reilly this time, not Peter Parker. In Marvel comics lore, Ben was a genetic clone of Parker's; in Spider-Noir, Cage performed Ben more like a clone of Humphrey Bogart.
"For me, this character was 70 percent Bogart, and 30 percent Bugs Bunny," Cage tells Esquire in this first of two separate Spider-Noir first looks. "I was basically Mel Blanc doing Bogart, with that sarcastic sense of humor. But it's a hundred percent me."
Below you will see an array of new images from the series, accompanied by our exclusive chat with the star. Over at this full-color first look at the series, you can see how the images look in their alternate form, since the streaming service will give viewers the option of seeing it either way. In that article, the creators explain how they reworked the Marvel Comics universe of Spider-Man as a streetwise Depression-era mystery.
Esquire speaks to co-showrunner Oren Uziel, as well as producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord, who oversaw the Spider-Verse movies and are best known for directing The Lego Movie. They revealed the surprising detail Cage shared with them about his Spider-Noir performance. "His take on it was like, 'I'm a spider trying to cosplay as a human,'" Lord says.
But first up, Cage himself gets to have his say about mimicking film noir, starring in his first-ever TV show, and the way the show feels different when seen in color vs. black and white.
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