Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir has reportedly set its release window (& it’s sooner than expected)

Spider-Noir is the name of the upcoming Spider-Man live-action show, featuring Nicolas Cage in the titular role. In a marked departure from the previous iterations featuring the web-slinging superhero, Spider-Noir is set in 1930s Great Depression-era America and will present Academy Award-winning Cage as a world-weary and brooding noir-esque hero navigating through the murky world of crime. Although there isn't a precise release date, Cosmic Marvel has confirmed that the show will drop sometime in early 2026.

Here's everything that we know about Spider-Noir.

What is Spider-Noir all about?

The Sony Spider-Man Universe (SSU) is constantly expanding in interesting directions, and Spider-Noir is placed within this same universe and commands a special significance. For starters, it will present an older version of the web-slinging superhero and situate him in the Noirish alleys of 1930s New York. It is the time of the Great Depression and, consequently, the high point of the mafia, racketeers, and bootleggers.

Amidst this bedlam of crime and violence, Nic Cage's Noirish detective Spider-Man can be expected to be featured alongside stylish shadows and an ominous narration, coupled with the bleak sense of morality that is often the hallmark of Noir fiction.

What's the latest buzz about Spider-Noir?

The live-action show will initially premiere on MGM+ domestically in the United States, followed by its global release on Prime Video. Nic Cage had his love for the superhero character in a Collider interview back in March of last year when he was approached for the first time in connection with the upcoming show:

"Well, I can say that we have been talking. It's no secret that I love the character. I think the character provides another mash up of sorts. I can combine my favorite golden age performances, i.e. Robinson, Cagney, Bogart, with a character that is, I guess, widely considered (to be) Stan Lee's masterpiece. I see it as a kind of foray into a pop art mash up of, sort of, a (Jungian) Lichtenstein, mash up by way of Bogart and Cagney, but nothing's definitive yet. It's just conversation."

Nic Cage opens up about the upcoming show

In an exclusive interview with Variety Magazine, Cage opened up further about his decision to take up Spider-Noir, remarking:

"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. It’s not really people beating people up. Monsters are involved.”

He then went on to speak about the difference in narrative time on films as compared to television:

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"I saw Bryan Cranston in ‘Breaking Bad’ stare at a suitcase for half the episode, Just him on the floor looking at a suitcase thinking, ‘What’s in it? Do I do this? Don’t I do it?’ I thought, ‘We don’t have time to do that in movies.’ So that to me seemed like an opportunity to open it up a little. I don’t know if the project that I’m exploring has room for that. I think this is a much more sort of popcorn-entertainment episodic.”

Spider-Noir can be expected to drop sometime in early 2026.

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