Lamorne Morris Cast As Robbie Robertson For Prime Video, MGM+ Spider-Man Noir Series
The 'New Girl' alum joins Nicolas Cage in the series
This is berry berry good casting. New Girl star Lamorne Morris is exercising spiders’ rights and joining Noir, Prime Video and MGM+’s Spider-Man Noir series starring Nicolas Cage. He’ll be playing Robbie Robertson.
Robertson is a long-standing canon character from Marvel comics, debuting in The Amazing Spider-Man #51, dated from August 1967. He was one of the first black supporting characters in comics not to be relegated to comic relief. In most iterations he’s a high-ranking editor at The Daily Bugle, thus making him a colleague of Peter Parker. His long history with Tombstone, an old high school classmate of his, was introduced and explored in the 1980s. He’s also been known to have more faith in Spider-Man than J. Jonah Jameson ever would. For this series, Robertson is described as “Driven, hard-working, and won’t take no for an answer. A dedicated journalist trying to make it with the odds stacked against him as a black professional in 1930s New York. He takes on riskier stories that no one else would touch in order to catch attention and a paycheck. He is willing to do whatever is necessary for his career.”
This would not be Robertson’s first time in the Noir mythos either. In Spider-Man Noir: Eyes without a Face, Robertson investigates disappearances of African-Americans from Harlem, leading to Otto Octavius, who captures and lobotomizes him in his quest for the “perfect slave”. Oy. As for the series itself, the logline tells of “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.” Which means there’s still no word on who this iteration of Noir is. When the series was first announced they were insistent on him not being a Peter Parker variant as he is otherwise known to be, and it seems nothing’s changed on finding an identity for him yet.
Morris is best known for hosting the short-lived Cartoon Network game show BrainRush, and his role as Winston Bishop in the seven season Fox comedy series New Girl. Most recently he starred in Fargo’s fifth season and the Hulu comedy series Woke. His guest roles include Ghosts, Call Me Kat, and as himself on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder at Disney+. His film work includes Game Night and The Christmas Chronicles. Coming up, he’ll be playing Garrett Morris in the film working as SNL 1975 and appear in the second season of the Netflix comedy series Unstable. Noir comes from Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, who developed the series with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller under their overall deal at Sony, and 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