First Spider-Noir Trailer Features Nicolas Cage's Delightfully Unhinged Portrayal of Ben Reilly

Here comes the affable vicinity Spider-Man you ne'er knew you needed. Amazon Prime conscionable dropped the archetypal trailer for its upcoming bid Spider-Noir, which features Nicolas Cage arsenic a 1930s backstage oculus with spidey senses — and arsenic you tin expect, it looks similar 1 hellhole of a bully time.

The sneak peek trailer, below, features Cage arsenic Ben Reilly, a caller mentation of the Spider-Noir quality helium antecedently voiced successful 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. And yes, determination are 2 versions of the trailer, reflecting the information that the amusement itself volition beryllium made disposable successful some achromatic and achromatic oregon "true-hue color" versions.

Here's the noir mentation first:

The trailer features Reilly opening up astir however helium came to person his powers to the quality of Cat Hardy, played by Li Jun Li. We spot Reilly conflict with the alteration earlier emerging arsenic a Spider-Man with a makeshift disguise dressed successful the classical noir garb: a trench overgarment paired with a chapeau and sunglasses. He beats up atrocious guys and gets drunk and acts beauteous kooky yet mysterious on the way.

All successful all, it’s a subtle equilibrium that lone Cage could achieve, which makes the show’s tagline each the much fitting: “With nary powerfulness comes nary responsibility.”

Now, here's that colour version:

Cage stars successful the bid alongside Jun Li, Lamorne Morris, Jack Huston, and Brendan Gleeson. Lukas Haas is besides acceptable for a recurring relation connected the show, which was created and volition beryllium showrun by Oren Uziel, writer of The Cloverfield Paradox. Uziel’s directorial debut was a neo-noir transgression movie called Shimmer Lake, truthful it makes consciousness he’d beryllium tapped to tackle different noir communicative if he’s specified a instrumentality of the genre.

Prime is acceptable to merchandise Spider-Noir connected streaming connected May 27.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.