New “Spider-Man” Variant Projects Are Coming

Next month sees the launch of “Spider-Noir” on Amazon Prime, a live-action series in which Nicolas Cage takes his animated voice character from 2018’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and delivers a live-action spin on it.

The series tells the story of Ben Reilly (Cage), a seasoned, down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life, following a deeply personal tragedy as the city’s only superhero.

Co-showrunner Oren Uziel previously confirmed last month that this take is the “same character, different universe” and a slightly different flavour, but “not a continuation of Into the Spider-Verse”.

Now, speaking with SFX Magazine (via Games Radar), Uziel claims several unannounced projects featuring similar Spider-Man/Spider-Verse variants are in the works:

“I’m focused on Spider-Noir, but I know there are others in the works. I’ve talked a bit to the people working on them and I think they are very exciting. They’re following a little bit of that same formula [as Spider-Noir], that same idea of taking a genre and elevating it by putting a Spider-variant into it. It opens up a whole new world, and it’s just an extremely exciting opportunity.”

No specific projects were mentioned in the interview. One of the projects mentioned is very likely to be the Spider-Punk movie announced last year, which has voice actor Daniel Kaluuya involved in some capacity.

There’s also been talk of a Spider-Gwen film, but that’s rumour only for now. The “Spider-Verse” producing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller is producing the new “Spider-Noir” series, which premieres on May 27th.