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Prime Video launches first live-action Spider-Man series starring Nicolas Cage

6/4/2026

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Prime Video streams Spider-Noir, the first live-action Spider-Man series since 1979, in the United States.
Writer David Hine praised the show’s cohesive world-building and black-and-white visuals, noting it softens the comic’s left-wing politics and drops Friends of New Germany references.
Nicolas Cage stars as Ben Reilly, with Karen Rodriguez, Brendan Gleeson and Li Jun Li noted as standouts.
Radio Times called Nicolas Cage’s movements humorously “spidery” but his web-swinging clumsy.

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Prime Video streams Spider-Noir, the first live-action Spider-Man series since 1979, in the United States.
Writer David Hine praised the show’s cohesive world-building and black-and-white visuals, noting it softens the comic’s left-wing politics and drops Friends of New Germany references.
Nicolas Cage stars as Ben Reilly, with Karen Rodriguez, Brendan Gleeson and Li Jun Li noted as standouts.
Radio Times called Nicolas Cage’s movements humorously “spidery” but his web-swinging clumsy.