Ben Reily closes his private detective agency for good. After a successful first season, Amazon has decided to cancel the series ‘Spider-Noir’. It seems that the Spider-Man starring Nicolas Cage has not achieved the same level of prominence as other productions from the studio, despite the positive reception at its premiere and its ties to one of Marvel’s most popular superheroes.
The series earned fantastic reviews from critics and the public, with a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In fact, it didn’t stop there: the series is nominated for eleven Emmy Awards, whose main ceremony will be just a week after the cancellation announcement. However, all of its nominations are for technical production categories, so if it wins any, the award will not be presented at the televised ceremony on September 14.
Long live the Sony Universe
The death of ‘Spider-Noir’ as a series is another nail in the coffin for Sony’s Spider-Man Universe projects. The company has spent years pushing forward films about characters connected to the web-slinger like ‘Morbius’ and ‘Madame Web’, but few have proven financially profitable. It was spared from the list ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’, from which the idea of giving Nicolas Cage’s character his own series emerged, but it seems it hasn’t met Sony’s standards either, whatever they may be.
That doesn’t spell the end of their ideas for projects. With Reily’s project dead and still warm on the table, Amazon and Sony would be close to closing a deal to adapt as an exclusive series for Amazon Prime another Spider-Man-related license. It is news that comes alongside the cancellation announcement according to outlets, but for now we will have to wait to see what the outcome will be.
A Demanding Audience
‘Spider-Noir’ has an edge, and that edge is that its sole season can be enjoyed as a standalone piece and it does not require more than its eight episodes to wrap up its story. This is an approach we hope other future platform series will follow, such as ‘Tomb Raider’ or the new ‘Robocop’. Because if Spider-Man isn’t enough when it’s breaking records at the cinema, what other license could meet the objectives Amazon demands?
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