Brendan Gleeson Is Next To Join 'Spider- Noir' At Prime Video, MGM+
Reportedly, the Irish actor is playing the villain
Well that was fast. Just a few hours after it was reported that Lamorne Morris had been cast as Robbie Robertson for the Spider-Man Noir series from MGM+ and Prime Video now known as Spider-Noir, it’s come out that Irish actor Brendan Gleeson has also been cast. That title change also came through with this news.
The actor, who will be seen in October’s Joker: Folie à Deux by the time Spider-Noir premieres next year(?), was most majorly last seen in his highly lauded role of Colm Doherty in The Banshees of Inisherin, which garnered him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. He is reportedly playing “the show’s villain”, though details are being kept under wraps, with requests for comment from the studios unanswered. It sounds as if whoever Spider-Noir is in this universe, he will have one overarching main villain.
In terms of long form series, Gleeson doesn’t have much, but the second season of Sundance TV’s State of the Union and three seasons of Audience’s Mr. Mercedes is nothing to scoff at. Though playing a certain former United States president in the Showtime miniseries The Comey Rule is hmmmm. As far as films, he’s probably best known to general audiences as Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody in the fourth (mostly impersonated by Barty Crouch Jr.) , fifth, and seventh Harry Potter films or as Knuckles McGinty in Paddington 2, considering the fandom those films have attained. However he also has Braveheart, 28 Days Later, Troy, Gangs of New York, The Smurfs 2, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and In Bruges to his name.
Spider-Noir will debut domestically on MGM+’s linear channel and then globally on Amazon Prime Video. The main character, played by Cage, is “an aging and down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero”. Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, who developed the series with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller under their overall deal at Sony, and Amy Pascal, all attaining executive producer status but only the first pair will be co-showrunners. Pascal executive produces via Pascal Pictures. Harry Bradbeer will executive produce as well and direct the first two episodes. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios.
Source: Variety