The trailer for Spider Noir is Here!
We can't wait for May!
I don’t really watch a lot of superhero things, but I have seen the two Into the Spider-Verse movies that have come out. My favorite part about them, unsurprisingly, was the inclusion of a Spider-Man variant called Spider-Noir, a black-and-white, trenchcoat-wearing avenger voiced by Nicolas Cage.
The character has appeared in his own comic series since 2009, but the adaptation of the character into one of the Spider-Verse posse seems to have charmed so many people, that eventually, a full Spider-Noir spinoff was announced.
It’s a miniseries. And now, we finally have a trailer for it.
The story follows a down-and-out PI in 1930s NYC who winds up with Spider-Man powers. Nicolas Cage plays the lead, and he’s joined by Lamorne Morris, Brendan Gleeson, and Li Jun Li.
It’s live-action, and it’s positively dripping in chiaroscuro. They are also releasing another version of the show in Tru-Hue Full Color.
It releases on May 27th! So… stay tuned!
Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, AirMail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the podcasst "Culture Schlock" at Lit Hub Radio. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.
