A live action series starring Spider-Man Noir is coming to Amazon Prime Videoas reported by Variety and IGN can confirm.
The outlet reports that the series will follow the superhero in 1930s New York and that it will be set in its own universe, without having Peter Parker as the protagonist. The series is being developed by Spider-Man: A New Universe producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and Orien Uziel, who will write and executive produce.
Es Sony’s new attempt to expand its spider universewhich has been churning out movies like the beloved Spider-Man: A New Universe and its upcoming sequel, two Venom movies, and last year’s much less successful Morbius.
Lately, however, Sony has been trying to move intellectual property to live-action television, having reached an agreement with Amazon last year to develop several series based on characters from the Spider-Man universe. Silk: Spider Society was the first television series announced as part of the deal.
Part of the Marvel Noir universe, Spider-Man Noir was created by writers David Hine and Fabrice Sapolsky and designers Carmine Di Giandomenico and Marko Djurdjevic. He first appeared in the four-issue miniseries Spider-Man: Noir #1 in 2009. A much more brutal and deadly version of Spider-Man than the more familiar Peter Parker, Spider-Man Noir takes on the criminal underworld. of a New York of the era of the Great Depression.
Spider-Man Noir has made several appearances in different mediaincluding the 2010 video game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, the Disney XD series Ultimate Spider-Man, and most recently Spider-Man: A New Universe, where he was voiced by Nicolas Cage in his original version.