The association between Amazon Prime and Sony is more fruitful than ever. The two companies have announced the production of another series based on the Spider-Man universe, “Spider-Man Noir”.
A few months ago, Amazon announced that it had launched production on several live-action series, including “Silk: Spider Society”, for example. According to Variety magazine, Prime Video could soon have a new live-action series from the Spider-Man franchise in its catalog: “Spider-Man Noir”. With over 900 characters to exploitSony’s SpiderVerse is definitely an endless source of inspiration for screenwriters.
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What is the name of the protagonist of “Spider-Man Noir”? Who will embody it? Will there be big names in the cast? Impossible for the moment to know. variety does not yet reveal any details about the characters of this new series. Everything will be decided at the level of the atmosphere, since the soap opera will be set in 1930s New York, in the America of the Great Depression therefore. The photography will therefore play on black and white, and according to executive producers Oren Uziel, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal, the Spider-Man that we will follow will not be Peter Parker.
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Knowing this, it’s a safe bet that the live action series will only draw inspiration from the comics published for the first time in 2009. Spider-Man Noir will undoubtedly retain the references to the noir novel and the political-historical context. According to Sony and Amazon, the hero will be older and less bouncy than the cheerful, naive Peter Parker we’re used to.
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Prime Video has every interest in consolidating its newly acquired leading position in American streaming. At a time when big streaming platforms seek to cut costs by easing original creations and laying off their employees by the thousands, the initiative of Prime Video and Sony is audacious to say the least.
