SPIDER-NOIR Reveals Sandman Casting and New Villain Details
The latest reveal for Prime video’s Spider-Noir series gives us a much clearer picture of the rogues’ gallery Nicolas Cage’s trench coat–wearing Spider-Man will be dealing with.
New casting confirmations and character details have surfaced, and they lean hard into the pulpy, crime-soaked tone the series is chasing.
Cage plays a noir-era version of Spider-Man and is guided by co-showrunners Steve Lightfoot and Oren Uziel. It spins out of the alternate Spider-Verse first introduced in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and brings that shadowy corner of Marvel lore into live action for the first time.
According to Esquire Magazine, one long-rumored villain casting is now officially locked in. Jack Huston is confirmed to be playing Flint Marko, better known as Sandman. It’ll be interesting to see how this villain will be portrayed in the series that will be drenched in crime, corruption, and moral gray areas.
Another big reveal centers on Brendan Gleeson, who was already known to be playing a powerful mob boss. Now we know exactly who that is.
Gleeson is portraying Silvermane, the Marvel Comics crime lord created by Stan Lee, John Romita Sr., and John Buscema, who first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #73 back in 1969.
The report also notes that Silvermane “has been the subject of repeated assassination attempts” in Spider-Noir, which may be part of a “broader scheme at play.”
The villain lineup isn’t the only thing getting attention. Li Jun Li is playing a femme fatale named Cat Hardy, described as a “nightclub chanteuse” who pulls Cage’s Ben Reilly “into the underworld conspiracy at the center of the series.”
Fans of the comics are already connecting dots, especially since the article points out that “comics fans will immediately draw a connection between her nickname and Felicia Hardy, better known as the master thief Black Cat.”
Spider-Noir is being produced by Sony Pictures Television and will be available to watch in both black-and-white and color when it premieres this spring on Prime Video and MGM+.