Jack Huston Joins MGM+, Prime Video’s 'Spider-Noir'
Jack Huston Joins MGM+, Prime Video’s 'Spider-Noir'
On Monday, it was confirmed that Brendan Gleeson had joined the cast of Prime Video and MGM+’s Spider-Noir from Sony Pictures Television, the first live-action Spider-Man-related series of the modern superhero age, playing the villain. Since no new details had surfaced regarding that casting except that it was maybe a mob boss, I shared the original article around again. Luckily come Tuesday, a new series regular actor for the series was revealed: Jack Huston.
Huston is set to play a bodyguard, and that’s all that’s been given. He most recently starred in the streamer’s limited series Expats, while continuing his starring role in the AMC series Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches. He also made his directorial debut with Day of the Fight, a film he also wrote and co-produced that stars Michael Pitt, Ron Perlman and Joe Pesci. It tells the story of a once-successful boxer who grapples with his past and present on the day of his first fight since leaving prison.
Spider-Noir stars Nicolas Cage as a Spider-Man Noir different from the one he voiced in Sony’s Spider-Verse films, even so far that it’s not a Peter Parker variant, at least as has previously been said. There is no word on whether that’s changed but it’s been a while since it was definitively said. Certain scoopers have already been caught with bogus Spider-Man-related news this week, some that previously may have pushed that it’s actually a Ben Reilly, Peter’s infamous clone. This Noir is described as an aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero. The rest of the regular cast includes Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson, and Abraham Popoola and Li Jun Li, whose World War I veteran looking for an opportunity to get ahead and nightclub singer characters haven’t had names revealed yet either.
Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot are Spider-Noir’s executive producers/co-showrunners, and developers of the series with fellow executive producers Phil Lord, Christopher Miller via their banner Lord Miller under their overall deal and Amy Pascal via Pascal Pictures. Harry Bradbeer will executive produce as well and direct the first two episodes. The series will premiere domestically on MGM+’s linear channel, then globally on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories, though it’s unclear whether that counts the United States for its streaming home too. And yeah, Sony’s pretty blatantly trying to ape Marvel Television like they do the movies. It was weird not mentioning Marvel at all before this part.
Source: Deadline