The upcoming Nicolas Cage-led Prime Video series, Spider-Noir, has swung its way to CCXP25 in Brazil, with its promotional booth and poster unveiling that this time around, it won’t be Peter Parker behind the mask.
As spotted by Collider, the Spider-Noir booth was decked out in an aptly 1930s New York City aesthetic, and amidst the decorations was a door to the detective’s office, which read the name B. Reilly, aka Ben Reilly.
In the comics, Benjamin “Ben” Reilly, also known as the Scarlet Spider, was a clone of Peter Parker grown in a lab by Miles Warren, aka the Jackal, originally designed as a supervillain who faces off with Parker’s Spider-Man, only to become an ally later on and adopt the Scarlet Spider persona. The character would go on to die at the hands of the Green Goblin, a sacrifice he made to save Parker, only to be resurrected by the Jackal by forcibly transferring his mind into new clone bodies, driving him mad in the process and leading to him becoming the new Jackal and starting his own criminal enterprise.
While Reilly has been depicted as a superhero, supervillain and antihero in the comics, it remains to be seen how Spider-Noir will adapt this character and if the show will maintain his recurring identity crisis themes. The character of Spider-Man Noir has always been quite a contrast with the usual cheerful, friendly neighbourhood web-slinger, fighting crimes in a much more violent way and even twisting the iconic Spidey motto into “If there is too much power, then it is the responsibility of the people to take it away.”
Cage, who last portrayed the character in a voice role in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, will now bring the character to life in the series, starring alongside Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Brendan Gleeson (Braveheart), Li Jun Li (Wu Assassins) and Abraham Popoola (From the World of John Wick: Ballerina). Spider-Noir will be helmed by 22 Jump Street co-writer Oren Uziel alongside The Punisher’s Steve Lightfoot.
Spider-Noir will swing its way to Prime Video sometime in 2026 and will consist of eight episodes.
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