Jack Huston is the latest to join Sony/Amazon’s upcoming Spidey series, Spider-Noir, which is being set for Prime Video.
Spider-Noir is being developed by Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot for MGM+, based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man Noir. It is intended to be the first television series part of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU). The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television, Lord Miller, Pascal Pictures, and Amazon MGM Studios, with Uziel and Lightfoot serving as showrunners.
Spider-Noir follows an aging, down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York City who is grappling with his past life as the only superhero in the city.
Nicolas Cage stars as Spider-Man Noir, after voicing a version of the character in Sony’s animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, with Lamorne Morris, Brendan Gleeson, Li Jun Li, and Abraham Popoola. As of now, Huston’s character is being kept under wraps but is being described as a bodyguard.
As for Huston, he appeared as Richard Harrow in the HBO television drama series Boardwalk Empire. He also had a supporting role in the 2013 film American Hustle, portrayed the eponymous Ben-Hur in the 2016 historical drama, and appeared as one of the main characters in the fourth season of the FX anthology series Fargo.
