Sony is reportedly making a live-action series about Spider-Man Noir for Amazon Prime Video, and it needs to deliver on a list of things viewers want to see.
Variety has revealed that Sony is now producing a live-action series about Spider-Man Noir exclusively for Amazon Prime Video. The series will reportedly “follow an older, grizzled superhero in 1930s New York City” and be set in its own universe, but Peter Parker will not be the main character. This show will feature Spider-Man Noir’s first appearance in live-action, which follows the character’s big-screen debut in the animated film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
In case everyone’s not up to speed, the Spider-Man Noir comics follow a variant of Peter Parker living in the 1930s, who gets bitten by a spider found inside a mystical artifact, gaining superpowers after having visions of a spider god. Watching the web-slinger fight crime in a Depression-era setting will make for a unique television event, to say the least. But if Sony wishes for this show and their cinematic universe as a whole to succeed, they need to deliver on a list of things that viewers want to see out of Spider-Man Noir.
Since Spider-Man Noir takes place in an alternate universe, the comic book’s writers took the webhead’s friends and adversaries and remade them to fit the story. The villains are significantly different in this reality, with Vulture being a cannibalistic hitman, the Green Goblin a crime boss, Black Cat a nightclub owner, and Doc Ock a Nazi scientist trying to brainwash minorities.
It would be very intriguing to see the show’s writers flex their creative muscles and reinvent memorable characters from Spider-Man’s world for this live-action adaptation.
