How the New Spider-Noir Series Reimagines Classic Villains Like Sandman and Tombstone for a Gritty, 1930s New York Setti

The upcoming series Spider-Noir reimagines some of Marvel Comics’ most popular heroes and villains as Prohibition Era gumshoes and gangsters squaring off in a New York City that, until 1933, has only ever known one super-powered figure: the crime-fighting vigilante called The Spider. But no one has seen hide nor hair of The Spider for five years when the show begins. The emergence of super-powered criminals prompts private eye Ben Reilly, The Spider’s alter ego played by Nicolas Cage, to suit up once more. While Ben’s sleuthing will reveal who these men are and how they got their powers, only The Spider can stop them from wreaking havoc on the Big Apple. Co-showrunner and executive producer Oren Uziel and the creative team put the needs of the story first when selecting the rogue’s gallery of Spider-Noir. “There's a million factors that go into this kind of thing. Some of them are practical like budget or availability because there's a lot of different hands reaching into the cookie jar that Marvel has, but fortunately it's also a really deep bench of characters,” Uziel told me. “I went very story-first into what would suit the needs of the story that we're telling. And then kind o

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