Over the weekend, the news broke that Amazon Prime Video has decided not to move forward with a second season of Spider-Noir, and star Nicolas Cage has now shared his response.
"For me, one season is perfect, having said what I wanted to say with this dangerous, innovative, pop-art Spider-Man,” Cage said in a statement to Deadline, adding, “Onwards, upwards, inwards.”
Spider-Noir told a mostly self-contained story over 8 episodes. While there were enough unresolved threads to develop another season if the show had been renewed, it's understandable that Cage wouldn't be overly disappointed that the series will not continue.
Despite this development, Deadline reports that the Amazon-Sony TV collaboration will continue. "The two sides are carrying on with development of multiple projects, with one of them said to be nearing a series order."
The show, which starred Cage as Ben Reilly, an aging PI in an alternate 1930s New York who must confront his former life as the city’s only superhero, was very popular with critics (92% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 90% audience score) and was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards, the most for any Prime Video show this year.
Last night, Spider-Noir won 5 of those Emmy Awards for: Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour), Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series, Outstanding Stunt Coordination, Outstanding Main Title Design, Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode.
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Oren Uziel served as writer and executive producer on the show, with Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and former Sony boss Amy Pascal also on board as executive producers.
Uziel is known for penning romantic actioner The Lost City, along with the likes of 22 Jump Street, Mortal Kombat, and The Cloverfield Paradox. He also has writing credits on John Wick: Chapter 4 and the upcoming Borderlands video game adaptation.
Cage didn't reprise the role of Noir for the recent Across the Spider-Verse animated sequel, but is expected to return for the final film in the animated trilogy, Beyond the Spider-Verse.
Spider-Noir's cast also includes Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Li Jun Li (Sinners), Karen Rodriguez (The Hunting Wives), and Abraham Popoola (Atlas), with guest stars Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice, Amanda Schull, Andrew Caldwell, Amy Aquino, Andrew Robinson, and Kai Caster.