The official Spider-Noir trailer is out, and it doesn’t miss a beat setting up a deathmatch for Nicolas Cage along with a brand new enemy. Brendan Gleeson plays an Irish crime boss who confronts Ben Reilly in his Jersey silk shirt.
The new trailer was premiered in Mexico City at the popculture festival CCXPMX26. We’ve never seen the first real look at the live action of Spider-Noir, but it seems dark and grounded.
Ben Reilly is a tough, old, and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s Manhattan. He has to come to terms with his past after a personal tragedy as the city’s one and only super-hero. Gleeson’s Silvermane is an Irish gangster and an enemy of the past that has almost certainly stayed on his list of assassination targets. He described his character as a philosopher with the “a drone-eye view” and equally lethal.
Classic Villains
The trailer shows glimpses at other classic villains like Electro, played by Joe Massingill, and the Sandman, played by Jack Huston, rebuilt to the 1930s detective role. Li Jun Li plays the club singer and femme fatale Cat Hardy, the series version of Black Cat. The rest of the cast includes Lamorne Morris, Karen Rodriguez and Abraham Popoola.
This isn’t Nicolas Cage’s first TV role, it’s his first starring role. Filming started in Los Angeles in August 2024 and should finish in mid-March 2025. Production was paused due to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires, but it’s now done.
Consisting of two formats, “Authentic Black & White” and “True-Hue Full Color,” is perhaps one of the more charming attributes of Spider-Noir. The dual-format release is a nod to the original, muted, low-contrast noirs in the Spider-Man Noir comics. While on set, the production crews recorded the series in black-and-white cameras and filters in order to properly capture the look of early 1930s film noir, including long shadows.
Credits
Spider-Noir was co-created by show-runners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot with the creative team from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Including co-directors and writers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and Into the Spider-Verse co-producer Amy Pascal. Emmy Award-winner Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag, Killing Eve) directed and executive produced the first two episodes.
It’s important to note that Spider-Noir is a self-contained Marvel series, separate from Sony’s Spider-Man films and the Into the Spider-Verse animated movies. Producing is Sony Pictures Television for MGM+ and Prime Video.
Spider-Noir premieres on MGM+ on May 25, 2026, in the U.S., with all eight episodes made available worldwide on Prime Video two days later. The series is rated TV-14, which is the most mature rating a Spider-Man television show has ever received.
