SPIDER-NOIR Canceled After One Season as Prime Video Eyes Another Sony Marvel Series
Nicolas Cage has officially hung the mask of The Spider, and I’m pretty bummed out about it. Prime Video won’t move forward with a second season of Spider-Noir, bringing the stylish Marvel series to an end after a single season despite being an awesome show, getting strong reviews, a solid launch, and an impressive haul of Emmy nominations.
The cancellation doesn’t mean Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television are finished mining Sony Pictures’ Universe of Marvel Characters for television. Their partnership is continuing, with multiple projects in development and one reportedly getting close to a series order. Details on that potential show are currently being kept under wraps.
But I’d still love to see more Spider-Noir! it was the second series ordered under the companies’ multi-title agreement, but it became the first to actually reach viewers. The previously planned Silk spinoff was scrapped before making it to the screen.
The future of the larger partnership was expected to depend in part on how Spider-Noir performed. While Cage’s series won’t be coming back, Amazon and Sony apparently saw enough potential in the overall arrangement to keep developing other Marvel projects. Series produced under the deal debut on MGM+ before heading to Prime Video.
Spider-Noir had quite a bit going for it. The show currently holds a 92% critics score and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and it picked up 11 Emmy Award nominations, more than any other Prime Video series in 2026.
Cage making his first television starring role also gave the series some extra firepower. Spider-Noir debuted at No. 2 on Nielsen’s U.S. Top 10 original series chart during its first week, generating 851 million viewing minutes. The series premiered May 25 on MGM+ before launching globally May 27 on Prime Video.
Across its first six weeks, the show accumulated 2.6 billion viewing minutes in the U.S., according to Nielsen Streaming Content Ratings. Those are respectable numbers, but the series dropped out of Prime Video’s daily Top 10 relatively fast and didn’t maintain the momentum of recent releases such as Off Campus, Reacher, and Ride Or Die.
Cost also worked against it. Spider-Noir was an expensive production, particularly because the series was filmed in both color and black-and-white versions. With streaming renewals heavily influenced by the relationship between production costs and viewership, its performance apparently wasn’t big enough to justify another season.
There was reportedly $400 million in production costs. At least the cancellation doesn’t leave fans staring at a giant unresolved cliffhanger. The first season told a mostly complete story, although a few threads remain open.
Based on Marvel’s Spider-Man Noir comics, Cage played Ben Reilly, an aging private investigator struggling to make ends meet in 1930s New York. A personal tragedy forces him to confront his former life as the city’s only superhero.
Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot developed the series and served as co-showrunners and executive producers. They worked alongside Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse filmmakers Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal.
It’s a very disappointing ending for Spider-Noir, especially considering the critical reception and the fun of seeing Cage finally bring his particular brand of weird energy to a live-action Spider-Man character. Still, Amazon and Sony clearly aren’t ready to abandon their Marvel TV plans.
Now the more interesting question is what character they’re planning to tackle next. With another project reportedly approaching a greenlight, we may not have to wait too long to find out.
Source: Deadline