Kai Caster Joins Amazon’s 'Spider-Noir' As Guest Star
The rising actor has also booked a role in the film 'Halloween Store'
Spider-Noir, Sony’s first live-action television usage of their Spider-Man rights starring Nicolas Cage as some iteration of Spider-Man Noir, has had its main and recurring casts combed rather thoroughly. But that doesn’t mean there was no one else to find. Such is the case with Kai Caster, the first discovery of probably many guests.
On the upcoming MGM+ and Prime Video series, Caster plays a character, who like so many before him, including series regulars that may or may not include Noir himself, does not have a character name or any details revealed, but he does have connection to another character. To which has not been revealed. Caster’s previous television experience includes The Baxters, American Horror Story: Apocalypse, New Girl, Shameless, CSI, House of Lies and the final season of Yellowstone. On the film side, he’s just been cast in the indie Halloween Store as Brock, the star quarterback boyfriend of lead character, Amy (Natalie Lind). He has a dark, sinister side under an All-American good boy facade. Set on Halloween night, the Simon Rex-starrer follows a group of people stuck inside a costume store with a killer on the prowl. He’s either red herring or the killer.
'Spider-Noir' Hides In The Garaks, Casting Andrew Robinson To Recur
Make that an even ten recurrers for Spider-Noir, the upcoming MGM+ and Prime Video live-action Spider-Man Noir series starring Nicolas Cage. The series has cast Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Andrew Robinson and Bosch’s Amy Aquino. However, like the eight other recurrers that preceded them, no character details have been revealed.
Spider-Noir stars Cage as a Spider-Man Noir different from the one he voiced in Sony’s Spider-Verse films, even so far that this one is not a Peter Parker variant, at least as has previously been said, and even so many months later that has not been reconfirmed. 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 series also stars Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson, the only known character with a name, and it’s a comics character too. Brendan Gleeson, Jack Huston, Abraham Popoola and Li Jun Li, play a villain, bodyguard with a currently-unrevealed assignment, World War I veteran looking for an opportunity to get ahead and nightclub singer characters respectively. Karen Rodriguez is also a series regular but her character doesn’t even have a job description. The recurring cast includes Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice, Amanda Schull, Andrew Caldwell, Andrew Robinson and Amy Aquino.
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. Aditya Sood and Dan Shear also executive produce as part of Lord Miller. 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 includes the United States.
'Legally Blonde' Prequel Series 'Elle' Nabs Lexi Minetree With June Diane Raphael As Mom
What, like casting’s hard? Amazon MGM Studios and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine have cast their first two leads for Elle, the Legally Blonde prequel series that continues the franchise that began with two Witherspoon-starring films as underestimated lawyer Elle Woods. Lexi Minetree will play Woods here, while June Diane Raphael will play her mother.
Source: Deadline