Amazon MGM Studios has pulled the plug on Spider-Noir after a single season, canceling Nicolas Cage's live-action Marvel series despite strong audience reception and 11 Emmy nominations.
The show followed Cage's Ben Reilly — a depression-era, web-slinging private detective — through the mean streets of a noir underworld populated by villains like Black Cat, Tombstone, and Silvermane. It was a grittier, street-level take on the character compared to the multicolored, dimension-hopping version from the animated Spider-Verse films. Spider-Noir hit Prime Video in May and earned genuine acclaim before Amazon MGM quietly decided not to renew it. Cage produced the series alongside Christopher Miller, Phil Lord, and Sony's Amy Pascal.
Spider-Noir draws from a 2009 Marvel comic series and represents Sony's ongoing effort to build spinoff properties around their Spider-Man character rights — the same arrangement that produced Morbius and Madame Web. Cage, whose stage name is itself a Marvel Comics reference, previously played Ghost Rider in the mid-2000s films and made a cameo as Superman in The Flash. Despite the cancellation, the Spider-Man Noir character isn't gone for good — Sony confirmed he'll appear in future Spider-Verse animated films, and the studio says it plans to keep developing new spinoff series.
The cancellation lands in a broader moment of instability for Marvel streaming. Disney recently axed Wonder Man despite apparent confirmation of a second season, and with Avengers: Doomsday on the horizon, it looks like both studios are reshuffling their Marvel TV slates around whatever comes next. Eleven Emmy nominations apparently wasn't enough to save Spider-Noir from the same fate.
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