Oscar Winner’s Emmy-Nominated Show Canceled After One Season
The Daily Beast • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Amazon has canceled the Nicolas Cage-led series Spider-Noir despite critical acclaim and strong audience ratings, including a 92% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and 11 Emmy nominations.
- The series, based on the Marvel comic "Spider-Man Noir," featured Cage as Ben Reilly, a gritty 1930s version of Spider-Man, and was developed with the team behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
- Cancellation is believed to be due to viewership numbers not justifying the high production costs, even though the show earned 2.6 billion viewing minutes in its first six weeks.
- Spider-Noir was the first project from a Sony-Amazon content deal, with Sony holding film and TV rights to Spider-Man and related characters since 1999, requiring regular new content to retain rights.
- Despite the cancellation, Sony and Amazon continue to collaborate on superhero projects, with at least one new series concept reportedly nearing a series order.
