In 'Spider-Noir,' Nicolas Cage and Lamorne Morris helm a visual superhero spectacle

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Like a detective connecting with a source in a classic movie from a bygone era, Nicolas Cage met with showrunner Oren Uziel for lunch at Bottega Louie in downtown L.A.back in 2024.The subject of their midday rendezvous: “Spider-Noir.” In the live-action series, out May 25 on MGM+ channel and streaming May 27 on Prime Video, Cage transforms into a new iteration of the arachnid superhero that he voiced in the Oscar-winning animated film from 2018, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”For his take on “Spider-Man Noir,” the comic book that’s the basis of the series, Uziel left behind Peter Parker and aged up the character with Cage in mind as the ideal embodiment of a 1930s private investigator in a film noir-inspired universe set in New York City (though filmed in Los Angeles).

The hero Cage plays, Ben Reilly, has a masked alter ego, the Spider, who possesses the ability to swing from building to building to fight crime.Television If a vacation or road trip isn’t in the cards this summer, you can still be transported to far-away places and alternate universes, like in ‘Spider-Noir,’ ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and ‘Lanterns.’“When we first sat down, Nick definitely was feeling me out and my chops in both genres.

He loves comic books so much and he loves noir way more than I knew,” says Uziel during a recent video interview.“He has an encyclopedic knowledge that’s similar to mine.

I passed that test and we really got comfortable with each other.”Episodic television represents a new frontier for Cage, an actor who, despite having a fabulously eclectic body of work to his name, had not embraced the small screen.It was important, he says, that he waited for something special to finally make the jump.“My love was cinema, and I was primarily interested in cinema.

But I had done it for 45 years,” Cage says over a video call.“It happened on �...