Amazon’s Spider-Man Noir Series Nabs Steve Lightfoot as Co-Showrunner
Amazon’s Spider-Man Noir Series Nabs Steve Lightfoot as Co-Showrunner
Lightfoot has previously developed and showran the 'The Punisher' series, among others
Amazon’s in-development Spider-Man Noir series for Prime Video has found the second and last of its co-showrunners in Steve Lightfoot.
The series’s development at Amazon was first reported in February, as covered at the old gig 2 weeks before the time there came to an end. Oren Uziel is writing the series and will be partnered with Lightfoot as the other co-showrunner. The series is definitely trying to stand out, as this version of Noir will not be a Peter Parker variant, and instead an older, grizzled superhero man in 1930s New York City. Granted, it’s the same setting as a familiar Noir like the Spider-Verse films. That’s the version general audiences are probably most familiar with, the Depression-era Nazi-punching private eye voiced by Nicolas Cage. While only a silent cameo for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, that same silent cameo sets up better involvement in Beyond the Spider-Verse.
Lightfoot does have a history in running shows based on Marvel characters, having developed and been showrunner on Netflix’s The Punisher, the Daredevil spin-off and thus equally connected to the rest of Netflix’s Marvel Television shows. Starring Jon Bernthal, it ran for two seasons before Disney+ started bubbling and Marvel Television began folding. Lightfoot was also the creator of Apple TV+’s Shantaram. He has also worked on Narcos and Behind Her Eyes for Netflix as well as Hannibal.
Being based on a Spider-Man character, of which Sony controls over 900 of, Sony Pictures Television is of course the studio. It is one of several such series Amazon has ordered, including Silk: Spider Society, from showrunner Angela Kang. There’s news on that that will hopefully be gotten to soon. Uziel, whose credits include The Lost City, The Cloverfield Paradox, 22 Jump Street, and the new Mortal Kombat. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the Spider-Verse films’ producers, executive produce as part of their overall deal with SPT, along with and former Sony boss Amy Pascal, who remains involved with the franchise despite said departure.
Source: Variety
They're going back to the time comic books began, so that's interesting. (Although Marvel itself- at least by that name- wouldn't come to exist until a few decades after that).