Nicolas Cage may not be playing Ghost Rider anymore, but he’s managed to lend his voice for other superhero characters including Superman (Teen Titans GO!) and Spider-Noir (Into the Spider-Verse). With word going around that Cage is set to reprise his version of Spidey for a Spider-Noir series, a possible synopsis for the show has found its way online.
According to insider Daniel RPK (via @cosmic_marvel), the Spider-Noir series will not focus on Peter Parker, but Ben Reilly (a.k.a. Peter’s clone in the comics). Here’s the fully synopsis:
“We follow Ben Reilly (Nicolas Cage), a private investigator, as he stumbles down a rabbit hole of corruption in 1933 New York City, while also establishing his past as a superhero. Reilly investigates the death of Edward Addison, which leads him to discover that the Mayor is up to something nefarious that involves crime boss Silvermane and femme fatale Yuri Watanabe.”
In the comics, Silvermane was a crime boss who had turned himself into a cyborg in an attemot to extend his life. Yuri Watanabe, on the other hand, was a police officer who took up the mantle of Wraith, a vigilante who can get brutal, but sometimes does team-ups with Spider-Man.
What’s crazy is that it’s said that Noir is planned to be a live-action series, but seeing that Sony couldn’t even get a handle on their live-action movies, I was convinced this was going to be animated.
And no offense to Cage, but I don’t think he wants to be onscreen jumping around and doing all kinds of kicks and flips as a Spider-Man variant. Unless they tell the story in that an older Ben Reilly is played by Cage, and he just flashes back to when he was a lot more spry.
A Spider-Noir series hasn’t been officially announced.
