Nicolas Cage’s ‘Spider-Noir’ Canceled by Prime Video After One Season Despite 11 Emmy Nominations

Nicolas Cage’s bizarre, noir-soaked Spider-Man gamble is officially over. Prime Video has canceled Spider-Noir after just one season, despite strong reviews and a stunning 11 Emmy nominations.

The web has gone cold for Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir.

Prime Video has canceled the live-action Marvel series after its first season, ending Nicolas Cage’s first regular television role after just eight episodes. The decision is particularly surprising because Spider-Noir earned widespread critical praise and picked up 11 Emmy nominations, the most of any Prime Video series this year.

The cancellation means Nicolas Cage’s dark and unconventional take on Spider-Man’s alternate-universe character Ben Reilly in Spider-Noir will not return for season 2.

Spider-Noir Had the Reviews But Still Got Canceled

On paper, Spider-Noir looked like a streaming success.

The series debuted in May and currently boasts a 92% critics score and 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Its Emmy haul further cemented its credentials during awards season.

Yet those numbers were apparently not enough to secure another season.

The eight-episode series is still available on Prime Video, allowing viewers to experience the unusual superhero story that combined Marvel mythology with Depression-era detective noir.

Nicolas Cage Finally Became a TV Superhero

For Nicolas Cage, Spider-Noir represented a significant career shift.

The Oscar-winning actor had previously voiced Spider-Man Noir in the animated Spider-Verse films, but the live-action series gave him an opportunity to play the character as a central television protagonist.

Cage portrayed Ben Reilly, a battered private investigator operating in 1930s New York who is forced to confront his mysterious past after suffering a devastating personal tragedy.

Rather than presenting another conventional superhero adventure, the series imagined Spider-Man through the lens of hard-boiled crime fiction.

That meant dark streets, old-school detective drama, violence and a deliberately retro visual style.

The Show Had One Wild Trick

One of Spider-Noir’s biggest gimmicks was also one of its most distinctive features.

Viewers could watch the series in either full color or black-and-white, with the latter presentation designed to evoke the visual language of classic film noir.

The approach helped separate the show from the increasingly crowded superhero television landscape.

Instead of chasing the glossy blockbuster aesthetic associated with modern Marvel productions, Spider-Noir went in almost the opposite direction.

A Star-Studded Supporting Cast

Cage wasn’t carrying the series alone.

The ensemble included Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez, Abraham Popoola, Jack Huston and Brendan Gleeson, with additional appearances from Lukas Haas, Cameron Britton, Cary Christopher, Michael Kostroff and others.

Behind the camera, Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot served as co-showrunners and executive producers.

Harry Bradbeer, known for Fleabag and Killing Eve, directed and executive produced the first two episodes.

The creative team also included major Hollywood names such as Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Aditya Sood, Dan Shear and Amy Pascal as executive producers.

A Bigger Marvel Universe Has Lost Its First Piece

The cancellation also carries significance beyond Spider-Noir itself.

The series was the first television project to emerge from Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios’ collaboration to develop stories involving Spider-Man and related Marvel characters.

That partnership was designed to expand Sony’s Spider-Man universe into television.

Despite Spider-Noir’s cancellation, the broader plan does not appear to be dead. Another project based on Spider-Man-related characters is reportedly in development and could be announced soon.

That means Cage’s Spider-Man may be finished, but Sony and Amazon’s experiment with the wider universe is continuing.

Why Cancel a Hit With 11 Emmys?

That is the question likely to dominate the conversation.

Spider-Noir had the kind of credentials that usually make a renewal easy to understand: strong reviews, an established star, a recognizable Marvel connection and an awards-season presence.

But Emmy nominations and critic scores don’t necessarily guarantee a streaming renewal.

Streaming platforms increasingly evaluate shows through a combination of viewership, completion rates, subscriber impact, production costs and broader strategic priorities. Prime Video has not publicly indicated which factors drove the decision.

For fans, however, the result is brutally simple.

There will be no Spider-Noir Season 2.