{"id":334836,"date":"2026-05-15T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=334836"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:17:00","slug":"nicolas-cage-and-spider-noir-team-on-bringing-bogart-to-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/nicolas-cage-and-spider-noir-team-on-bringing-bogart-to-spider-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Cage and ‘Spider-Noir’ Team on Bringing Bogart to Spider-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tFor the most recent chapter in Sony\u2019s Spider-Verse<\/em>, Spider-Noir <\/em>creator and co-showrunner Oren Uziel was already a fan of the noir genre and Spider-Man before he signed on. That meant he and actor-producer Nicolas Cage could spend more of their time, all the best way back to writing the pilot, unpacking a single query: \u201cWhat if we made a Bogart movie where Bogart just happened to be Spider-Man?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEach day he\u2019d come to set with a special reference: \u2018That is Bogart from The Big Sleep<\/em>, that is going to be Peter Lorre. That is going to be Edward G. Robinson,’\u201d Uziel, whose own inspirations included Third Man<\/em>, Double Indemnity<\/em>, The Thin Man<\/em>, His Girl Friday<\/em>, L.A. Confidential, Miller\u2019s Crossing<\/em> and Casablanca, <\/em>said of Cage\u2019s commitment to shaping the character and world. \u201cBeyond that, we didn\u2019t have the desire to make a version of Spider-Man that anyone had seen before. Nic was never going to try this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe primary season, which drops on Prime Video on May 22, expands the story of Spider-Man Noir, who made his animated onscreen debut in 2018\u2019s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em>. \u201cThey\u2019re connected needless to say. There\u2019s inspiration being taken there,\u201d Uziel said. \u201cBut whenever you\u2019re making an eight-episode television series, you\u2019re going to actually expand it and broaden it. In live motion, you get to see so rather more of Nic\u2019s performance and you’ll be able to really fully realize Recent York within the \u201930s.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe just were like, if that is the world, it\u2019s the \u201830s and that is the guy, where does that take us?\u201d added co-showrunner Steve Lightfoot. \u201cAll of it starts and ends with the character, and we were just doing such a special version, who has wider powers, that every part led from that. He’s older, he’s wiser, he’s possibly somewhat less excited to do all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOriginally dubbed Noir<\/em>, the show was retitled to Spider-Noir<\/em> ahead of its release to raised encapsulate its mixing of genres, said executive producer Dan Shear. \u201cIt\u2019s really a merging of two genres. We\u2019re telling a noir, but we\u2019re also telling a Spider-Verse<\/em> show and the title represents the intersection of those genres, which type of creates a 3rd recent thing that we hadn\u2019t seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the TV series needed not only to capture elements of the noir genre, but additionally, \u201cit must be funny. Nic is a funny person. Spider-Man was all the time quippy. And a few of our favourite noirs are really funny, but additionally emotional,\u201d Miller explained. \u201cBecause the show gets weirder, you\u2019re letting Nic be Nic, after which also a few of the crazy stuff they were doing within the surrealist horror noir space of the period gave the impression of an incredible opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCage\u2019s co-stars saw the actor\u2019s full-bodied commitment to delivering on the Spider-Noir<\/em> universe helped elevate what actor Lucas Shaw described as a brand new type of \u201cbadass adult\u201d version of Spider-Man and one where Sandman<\/em> actor Jack Huston said the heroes and villains do \u201cdevelop into a little bit of their very own metaphor and that\u2019s a wonderful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNic is unlike another actor you\u2019ve ever seen. He pulled from Bugs Bunny to play this character,\u201d said Lamorne Morris, who portrays Robbie Robertson, a journalist and friend of Cage\u2019s Reilly. \u201cHis whole thing is he’s a spider attempting to learn find out how to be a human. Whereas I feel other characters are the reverse \u2014 they’re humans playing the spider and I feel it\u2019s a very unique tackle it.\u201d Added Brendan Gleeson, who portrays the series lead antagonist, mobster Silvermane: \u201cIt was only a joy to be working with Nic since you toss it across and it comes back with twice a spin on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCage not only stars but additionally serves as a producer, supporting the series through its \u201cTrue Hue\u201d color journey, headed up by colorist Pankaj Bajpai. \u201cIt was essential to me to get the series made, and I knew there was lots of trepidation about it being shot in black and white,\u201d the actor and executive producer said on Wednesday\u2019s carpet. \u201cI could tell that a few of the folks within the studio were nervous. So I said, \u2018You don\u2019t only<\/em> need to shoot it in black and white; it’s also possible to get teenagers, who is perhaps watching, by shooting in color with almost a colorized feel. And possibly that\u2019ll make them thinking about watching it in black and white.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Chris Miller, Nicolas Cage and Phil Lord on the premiere.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJason Mendez\/Getty Images for Prime Video<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tIt was a plan that the whole creative team got behind, said Miller, who told THR<\/em> the team agreed they were \u201cgonna shoot it with intention for black and white\u201d and \u201cnot switch it on the last second\u201d from the start. That single decision affected every part from performances to the music to cinematography. <\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of the series\u2019 release, reports of budget disagreements between the manufacturing team and Sony Pictures Television emerged, but Shear clarified any budgeting conversations were addressed early within the production process. \u201cBefore production, Amazon got here to us and asked us if we could also make a color version of the show to go along with it \u2014 two versions of the show for the audience. We accepted the challenge, worked out our plan for it and it was really seen as an efficient, effective production,\u201d Shear said on the carpet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Cage, releasing the most recent chapter in Sony\u2019s Spider-Verse<\/em> in black and white wasn\u2019t nearly staying true to the period and type of his specific Spider-Man. \u201cI designed my performance to suit throughout the black-and-white format, but my dream is that [young viewers] will see the black and white after they do the colour, and so they\u2019re going to want to have a look at the old movies, all that great wealth of American cinema that we have now, and all these great old actors, and what they were doing, what that style was like,\u201d he explained. \u201cI also say, it doesn\u2019t matter if a 13-year-old doesn\u2019t know who Humphrey Bogart is. It really works.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show\u2019s explicit decision to cross period with modernity might also work in its favor when it comes to capturing a younger audience, no matter which version they watch it in. \u201cWe desired to be truthful to the period, but we never wanted it to feel like a pastiche,\u201d said co-showrunner Steve Lightfoot. \u201cWe wanted it to be its own thing, and if you happen to\u2019re writing a show now, it\u2019s hopefully going to talk to now. If you look back at those old movies, they\u2019re very of their time, and we desired to be certain that that our show felt now despite the fact that it\u2019s set prior to now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the long run of the series, Miller \u201ccould be completely satisfied to do more,\u201d with Lord continuing, \u201cWe’re television producers. We\u2019re not gonna say no.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOne in all the magical things about any private detective story is, if you happen to want one other story, all it takes is one other client to knock on that door, after which comes a brand new set of cases, a brand new set of problems and a brand new adventure to go one,\u201d Uziel added. \u201cSo [it\u2019s] conceived to be as many seasons as we wish to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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