It was a dark and stormy night for “Spider-Noir.” The Prime Video/MGM+ series, starring Nicolas Cage in his first-ever regular TV role, has been canceled after eight episodes and won’t return for a Season 2.
The news comes even as “Spider-Noir” heads into the first weekend of Emmy ceremonies with 11 nominations — the most of any Prime Video program this year. The series also has a solid 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (and a 90% “popcornmeter” vote among fans).
“Spider-Noir” was the first Marvel-related series to premiere out of Amazon’s pact with Sony Pictures TV to develop characters and stories from the “Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters.”
Sony notes that its oversight includes more than 900 Marvel characters associated with the Spider-Man franchise. The second series to come out of that partnership is already in development and is expected to be announced soon.
“Spider-Noir” was based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man Noir, and was adapted for television by Oren Uziel. The series takes place during the Great Depression and stars Cage as Ben Reilly, “a seasoned, down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life following a deeply personal tragedy, as the city’s one and only superhero.”
