'Spider-Noir' Gets Another Series Regular In 'Swarm' Actress Karen Rodriguez
That is *a lot* of castings with very few role details already, let’s see how fast things move from here
Despite squaring away eight recurring roles, it turns out Amazon and MGM+’s Spider-Man Noir series Spider-Noir still had one more series regular role in the cards. The series has cast Karen Rodriguez in yet another role with no revealed character details.
Rodriguez has previously appeared in the Prime Video series Swarm. She is also known for her roles in such series as Apple TV+’s Acapulco and Shining Girls, with Power Book IV: Force at Starz, and the short-lived The Big Leap at Fox from fall 2021. She will next be seen in The Hunting Wives, another Starz drama series.
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. 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. Because of this, Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson is the only known character with a name. Rodriguez joins Brendan Gleeson, Jack Huston, Abraham Popoola and Li Jun Li, whose respective villain, bodyguard, World War I veteran looking for an opportunity to get ahead and nightclub singer characters who haven’t been so lucky. Even who the bodyguard is assigned to isn’t explicitly clear yet. And that’s just of the regulars, as the recurring characters played by Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice and Amanda Schull haven’t been revealed 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. 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 counts the United States for its streaming home too.
Source: Variety