'Spider-Noir' Hides In The Garaks, Casting Andrew Robinson To Recur
He and 'Bosch' actress Amy Aquino round out the recurring cast
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.
Robinson is probably best known for playing the eccentric Cardassian Elim Garak on the third series in the Star Trek franchise which aired from 1993-1999, appearing in 37 episodes across all seven seasons, starting in season 1’s “Past Prologue”. He recently reprised the role in the penultimate episode of the animated series Lower Decks, “Fissure Quest”, which acted on relationship subtext, turning it into text in a manner that may still be elaborated on somewhere down the road. Before Garak, he was best known for his performances as the Scorpio Killer in the first Dirty Harry film, Larry and Frank Cotton in the original Hellraiser, and Sergeant Botnick in Child’s Play 3. He has directed and acted in over 100 plays all over the United States and Europe, and created the MFA Actor-training Program for the USC School of Dramatic Arts, running it for many years. He has published a memoir, Stepping into the Light and a novel, A Stitch in Time. If I’m reading things correctly, this will be Robinson’s first live-action television work in over 20 years, guest starring in a 2004 episode of The Practice.
Aquino played therapist Dr. Christine Raynor in the Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries The Falcon and The Winter Soldier but is best known as Lt. Grace Billets, boss and friend of homicide detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) on all seven seasons of Bosch. She can be seen as Judge Thelma Stewart in Clint Eastwood’s Warner Bros.-mishandled film Juror #2, while her previous television appearances include The Good Fight, The Irrational, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Felicity, ER, Everybody Loves Raymond, and was herself a The Practice guest star. She was even one of the producers of Glee’s version of the Funny Girl revival, never named.
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 it’s not a Peter Parker variant, at least as has previously been said. There is still no word in the five months since the last casting news on whether that’s changed, continuing such drought. 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. 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 still don’t. Even who the bodyguard is assigned to isn’t explicitly clear yet. Karen Rodriguez’s series regular character doesn’t even have a job description. The group of aforementioned recurrers Robinson and Aquino join are Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff, Scott MacArthur, Joe Massingill, Whitney Rice and Amanda Schull.
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: Deadline