When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was released in 2018, one of the biggest surprises (amongst its many great surprises) was hearing the reassuring and unmistakable voice of Nicolas Cage as Spider-Noir. Along with the Looney Tunes vibes of Spider-Ham and the anime stylings of Peni Parker, Cage’s brooding, black-and-white, 1950s-coded hero helped to take what was already a pretty great movie and turn it into one of the most fun and inventive superhero movies ever made.
Now, that character is finally getting his own live action show on Amazon Prime, with Cage reprising his role as Spider-Noir (and his alter-ego, a P.I. named Ben Reilly) in what looks likely to be a street-level superhero tale—and one that apparently will be available in both colour and black-and-white when it drops in May. Unsurprisingly, the Phil Lord and Chris Miller-produced series already boasts a strong supporting cast—one containing fan favourites, an Emmy winner, and even some Hollywood royalty.
Read on to discover more about them and use the guide below to find out where to stream some of their best-known work on services like AppleTV, Netflix, Prime Video and elsewhere.
Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly/Spider-Noir
The first star on our list probably doesn’t need any introduction. Whether you know him for his unhinged performances in movies like The Wicker Man or Mandy, or for his action hero days in movies like Con Air and The Rock, or his romantic lead roles in movies like Leaving Las Vegas, or his artsier stuff, like Wild at Heart, or even just know him as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, let’s just say that if you have any interest in movies you’re probably as in love with Nicolas Cage as we are.
In Spider-Noir, Cage plays the title role—a film noir-style private investigator who used to fight crime as a hero called ‘The Spider’ back in the 1930s. You can probably see where this is going…
Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson
To most TV fans, Lamorne Morris will always be remembered for playing Winston Bishop over 145 episodes of New Girl, but the actor has actually gone on to have an impressive and varied career since that show wrapped up in 2018.
Naturally, Morris has continued to work in comedy, with memorable roles in movies like Game Night and the SNL biopic, Saturday Night, but it was his performance as the quietly brave state trooper in Season 5 of Fargo that won him the most acclaim, even picking up an Emmy for the role. In Spider-Noir, the actor plays Robbie Robertson (not that Robbie Robertson), a close friend of Cage’s hero who also works as a journalist for The Daily Bugle.
Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy
Born in Shanghai and raised in the United States, Li Jun Li began picking up tv roles around 2010, but it wasn’t until Damien Chazelle cast her as Lady Fay Chu in Babylon that her career started blowing up—and in all the right ways.
Last year, Li followed up that success with another wonderful turn in Sinners, as the shop-owner Grace Chow, but her character in Spider-Noir, Cat Hardy, a night club singer and femme fatale, sounds closer in tone to that earlier role.
Karen Rodriguez as Janet
The second-billed female role in Spider-Noir is being played by relative newcomer Karen Rodriguez, an actress whose biggest roles to date have come on series like The Hunting Wives (where she played Deputy Salazar) and the Apple TV+ show Acapulco.
In Spider-Noir, Rodriguez plays the assistant to Cage’s P.I., Ben Reilly—a role she has compared to Effie (the Lee Patrick part) in The Maltese Falcon.
Jack Huston as Flint Marko/Sandman
And speaking of The Maltese Falcon—if you’re looking to invoke that Hollywood classic, why not cast the grandson of its legendary director? Jack Huston (grandson of John and nephew of Angelica) came into most of our lives with his performance as Richard Harrow, the polite and masked sharpshooter in Boardwalk Empire. Since then, the handsome star has gone on to appear in everything from American Hustle to Season 4 of Fargo.
In Noir, Huston is set to once again play a disfigured killer—but, unluckily for Ben Reilly, it looks like he’ll be fighting for the bad guys.
Brendan Gleeson as Silvo Manfredi/Silvermane
Like Cage, Brendan Gleeson—the actor who played Mad Eyed Moody in the Harry Potter films, appeared in everything from Gangs of New York to Paddington 2, and recently got a long-overdue Oscar nomination for his supporting turn in The Banshees of Inisherin—probably needs no introduction.
In Spider-Noir, Gleeson is set to put on his villain hat again to play Silvermane—a philosophical New York mob boss—so expect something like the energy he brought to Mission: Impossible II all those years ago.
Lukas Haas as Unnamed Silvermane Henchman
The last name actually connected to a character (at least that we’ve heard so far) from the Spider-Noir cast is that of Lukas Haas—an actor a lot of viewers were probably first introduced to in the 1985 classic Witness—a role the actor played when he was just nine years old. As an adult, Haas gave a great performance in Rian Johnson’s incredible debut feature, Brick, before going on to pick up roles in as wide-ranging movies as Inception and Lincoln.
For Noir, not a huge amount of information is available about his role, but it looks as if Haas will be playing one of Silvermane’s main goons.
Cameron Britton in an Undisclosed Role
There’s still no information on who Cameron Britton is playing in Spider-Noir, but fans of Mindhunter will likely recognise him for his recurring role as the serial killer Ed Kemper on that popular Netflix show. Outside of that, Britton has picked up smaller roles in movies like The Girl in the Spider’s Web (coincidence?) and Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17.
In terms of who he’ll be playing, we will have to wait and see.
