"Being a fly on the wall should come naturally to your average private-eye. But being a literal wall-crawler? That's something new. This is what distinguishes Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir hero from the other iconic gumshoes who populate our pop culture-but he's also starkly different from any other Spider-Man who has swung across our paths."
""For me, this character was 70 percent Bogart, and 30 percent Bugs Bunny," Cage tells Esquire in this first of two separate Spider-Noir first looks. "I was basically Mel Blanc doing Bogart, with that sarcastic sense of humor. But it's a hundred percent me.""
"Over at this full-color first look at the series, you can see how the images look in their alternate form, since the streaming service will give viewers the option of seeing it either way."
Nicolas Cage makes his television debut portraying Ben Reilly as Spider-Noir in a Prime Video series streaming later this spring. The Spider-Noir character is an alternate-universe anti-hero distinct from Peter Parker and differs from Cage's 2018 Into the Spider-Verse performance. Ben Reilly is presented as a genetic clone of Parker and is reimagined through a Depression-era, film-noir lens. The performance intentionally blends Humphrey Bogart’s hard-boiled cadence with Bugs Bunny’s sarcastic humor. Creators Oren Uziel, Chris Miller, and Phil Lord reworked the Marvel Comics universe into a streetwise mystery and will offer an alternate viewing option for the series' imagery.
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