Nic Cage’s ‘Spider-Noir’ premieres on May 27—with a black-and-white version, too

We didn’t know we needed Nicolas Cage in a Spider-Man mask, but we do. 

Spider-Noir, the live-action Marvel series starring Cage, will premiere on MGM+'s linear broadcast channel on May 25 and then globally on Prime Video on May 27—and it’ll be available in both black-and-white and color.

The series is based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir and follows a seasoned and down-on-his-luck private investigator, Ben Reilly (who Cage is playing), in 1930s New York. After a personal tragedy, he is forced to face his past life as “The Spider,” the city’s only superhero. “Only an extraordinary case could call him to drop the ordinary-man act and put his mask back on,” Prime Video explains.

This is certainly a new take on Spider-Man. It’s a grittier, film noir version starring an older “Spider” hero—Cage is the oldest cast in the role.

To see which version you might like to watch best, Prime released a black-and-white trailer:

and a "true-hue" color trailer:

The trailer shows super cool fights with 1930s versions of Sandman (Jack Huston), Megawatt (Andrew Lewis Campbell), Tombstone (Abraham Popoola), and run-ins with Silvermane, the mob boss played by Brendan Gleeson, and Black Cat or Cat Hardy (Li Jun Li), the star of a premier nightclub.

The show also stars Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson, a dedicated journalist trying to make it in 1930s New York and Karen Rodriguez as Janet, Reilly’s loyal and vocal secretary.

We first saw Spider-Noir on screen in the award-winning film Into the Spider-Verse, which Cage also voiced. Now we get to see him kick butt in his own story—in both black and white and color!