by A beloved Spider-Man spin-off character will soon get his own Amazon Prime series.
Sony Pictures is set to launch a major campaign in the market for TV shows that focus on Spider-Man.
Back in November, it was revealed that the companies that own the on-screen Spidey rights would create a number of “diversity, character-forward, watercooler shows” based on the webhead’s universe.
Along with this proposal, the initial one of these was revealed. The upcoming Amazon Prime series Silk: Spider Society will focus on the “infinite Multiverses” of the Spider-Verse and its titular Silk hero. However, it is crystal evident now that Silk is only the beginning.
Coming Soon: A Spider-Man Noir Series
The second Sony Spider-Man spin-off on the streaming service, Spider-Man Noir, will be coming to Amazon Prime, according to an announcement made exclusively by Variety.
The unnamed live-action series will centre on a more traditional version of the famous wall-crawler operating in 1930s New York. It will not centre on Peter Parker and take place in a distinct Spider-Man universe, according to the statement.
The series was planned by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse creators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, as well as former Sony executive Amy Pascal, and will now be written and executive produced by The Lost City, Mortal Kombat, and The Cloverfield Paradox author Oren Uziel.
“it’s going to be amazing,” Chris Miller tweeted in response to the news, celebrating the announcement.
“Can confirm! And also confirm that it’s going to be amazing.”
This comes shortly after Sony revealed their streaming ambitions for Spider-Man, with Silk: Spider Society being the first product from the initiative to be made public.
Silk and Spider-Man Noir are only the first two of what Sony claims are a number of Spider-Man-related projects the studio is working on.
Spider-Man Noir: Who Is He?
Spider-Man Noir is a gritty, darker Spidey who has a lot of potential for on-screen narrative, despite the fact that most people only know him as the silly character Nicolas Cage played in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (a role the actor has stated he will not reprise).
In the comic books, Peter Parker’s alter ego Spider-Man Noir works as a superpowered private eye (P.I.) in 1930s New York City. Instead of the standard fantasy comic book material found in other Spider-Man stories, this version of the superhero told grounded Batman-style investigative mysteries.
Who Spider-Man Noir is in this Amazon Prime series will be interesting to watch. It won’t be Peter Parker, as was said above. Will the new character have a completely different backstory? Or is Sony Pictures being cunning, knowing that the lead character would be a parody of Peter with the same beloved backstory?
Knowing the P.I. roots of Spider-Man Noir, this character feels ideal for television. If Amazon Prime wanted to, it could use this character to tell its own super-powered version of True Detective, borrowing a page from DC’s playbook in the process.
Fans should be anticipating what kind of mystery the character will tackle in the Amazon series because he is ideal for a TV adaptation.
