Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir series finds its villain – and they have surprise comic book movie experience
Jul. 10, 2024Brendan Gleeson joins the cast of Spider-Noir opposite Nicolas Cage
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Brendan Gleeson will reportedly star opposite Nicolas Cage in the upcoming Spider-Noir series on Prime Video.
Varietyreports that Gleeson, perhaps best known for his turns inThe Banshees of InisherinandIn Bruges, will play the show’s villain.
The newly-titled Spider-Noir sees Cage reprise his role as the moody black-and-white Spider-Man variant fromInto the Spider-Verse.
Per the show’s official synopsis, Spider-Noir follows “an aging and down on his luck private investigator in ’30s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.”
The project is set to be produced by Spider-Verse’s Phil Lord and Chris Miller alongside Amy Pascal. Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot are onboard as co-showrunners.
It may have passed you by amid the Lady Gaga of it all, but Brendan Gleeson is also set to appear in Joker: Folie à Deux in an unknown role – meaning he’s now part of two of Marvel and DC-adjacent projects that feel worlds away from the suits-and-spandex fare ofMarvel Studiosprojects and DC Studios’ upcomingSuperman, directed by James Gunn.
Recently, Nicolas Cageoffered up an intriguing tease of Spider-Noir. Speaking toThe New Yorker, he said, “If I do this show, that’s something different. It’s more of a Pop-art mashup, like a Lichtenstein painting, where I want to do something that has some sparkle to it. It’s fun to look at. It won’t be Pig; it won’t be Dream Scenario. But how many of those can you find? I’m just lucky that I found them in my late fifties.”
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