News Spider-Noir Spider-Noir Is a “Distant Cousin” to Spider-Verse, With a Bogart-Leaning Bent Humphrey Bogart, but make him Nic Cage… I mean Spider-Man By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on May 13, 2026 Courtesy of Prime Video Comment 0 Share New Share Courtesy of Prime Video Nicolas Cage’s Ben Reilly in Spider-Noir is a mashup of the Spider superhero we know and love, with 1930s-style noir. That mix, according to co-showrunner Oren Uziel, was the guiding light for the series, with one additional detail. “The thing that I said a lot from start to finish was, ‘We’re really trying to make an old [Humphrey] Bogart movie,’” Uziel told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s just that Bogart happens to be Spider-Man.” This character, Uziel also emphasized to EW, will be a “distant cousin” and “not the same at all” as the Spider-Noir character Cage voiced in the animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The co-showrunner went on to say that Cage—whose character has been out of the masked hero business for decades and, when he was a superhero, went by the moniker, The Spider—also used Bogart and similar actors for inspiration: “Every day on set when we talked in his trailer, [Cage] would come to work with, ‘This bit is gonna be Bogart from The Big Sleep. This bit is gonna be a little bit of Cagney. You’re gonna see some Peter Lorre here.’ He gets so much joy out of it. That’s why he’s Nic Cage.” We can also get joy from Nic Cage’s performance (in color OR in black-and-white, as Prime Video will be releasing both versions of the show), when Spider-Noir premieres on the MGM+ linear channel on May 25, 2026, followed by Prime Video on May 27, 2026. [end-mark] The post <i>Spider-Noir</i> Is a “Distant Cousin” to <i>Spider-Verse</i>, With a Bogart-Leaning Bent appeared first on Reactor.