Spider-Man Noir Series is 8 Episodes Long, Says Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage is detailing his involvement in Spider-Man Noir .

The actor, who reprises his role as a variant of Spider-Man from 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse , shared some exciting secrets about the show.

Spider-Man Noir is “more of a Pop-art mashup, like a Lichtenstein painting,” with “some sparkle to it,” he tells The New Yorker .

Unlike both Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse , however, MGM+ and Amazon Prime Video’s Spider-Man Noir series is live-action. It’s also entirely in black and white, with Cage channelling Hollywood’s Golden Age,

"Well, I mean, the fantasy would be that I could try to aspire to be something more Golden Age," says Cage. "You know, something more like James Cagney or Humphrey Bogart. Or Hedy Lamarr or Bette Davis. I wanted to have that kind of aura, you know, like the more enigmatic, you don’t know too much. That’s why I’m not on social media. That’s the thinking, anyway. I don’t know. We’ll see what happens if I do this Amazon show [ Spider-Man Noir ], and they put me in black-and-white. We’ll see if we can get some of that flavor.”

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It’s Cage’s first TV show in 45 years, after doing “a pilot a million years ago, when I was fifteen, for George Schlatter, of Laugh-In .”

Cage is currently terrifying cinema audiences with his turn as a serial killer in Longlegs. Speaking of which, read our Longlegs review: Nicolas Cage crawls under your skin in this hypnotic, nnnerving tale. That said, he doesn’t want to get typecast in violent roles .

“I don’t like violence. I don’t want to play people who are hurting people. One of the things that I like about this potential show is that it’s fantasy,” he continued. “It’s not really people beating people up. Monsters are involved.”