The new trailer for Prime Video’s Spider-Noir has drawn expected comparisons to the recent adventures of Tom Holland’s Marvel Cinematic Universe Spider-Man, with one comment about the series’ brief web-slinging scene becoming a focal point of conversations. Coming from Sony Pictures Television and heading to MGM+ and Prime Video in May, Spider-Noir sees Nicolas Cage playing Ben Reilly, aka The Spider, in a live-action take on the “Spider-Man Noir” comics. While Cage has previously voiced the character in the animated Spider-Verse movies, this new interpretation leans heavily into a 1930s Film Noir vibe, but also comes with one classic Spider-Man trait that has already outplayed Jon Watts’ MCU movies. In the trailer, which focuses on establishing the aesthetic of the show and Cage’s very different “Spider-Man” to any other live-action iteration seen before, we see a fully costumed Cage swinging his way though the streets of 1930s New York, something many have said is exactly what recent Spider-Man movies have been seriously lacking.

One comment made on X said, “Spiderman Noir already has better web slinging than the MCU’s.” Another added to this with, “How is it that a TV show’s web-slinging beats everything Jon Watts ever gave us in the movies?” A third followed this by writing, “The old Tom Holland movies have zero excuses for giving us no New York Swings.”

Exactly why Spider-Noir has immediately managed to beat the MCU’s Spider-Man movies on such a simple and fundamental Spider-Man trait is unclear, but it will be interesting to see how things change for Holland’s next outing in Brand New Day under new director Daniel Destin Cretton. However, there is very little difference between the budgets of many movies and TV shows these days, so it is not surprising to see Spider-Noir having plenty of cinematic scope on display.
Spider-Man Will Be Coming Back Strong in 2026 and 2027

Tom Holland in Spider-Man: HomecomingSony Pictures Releasing

The Spider-Noir trailer revealed that Nicolas Cage’s series will drop on Prime Video on May 27, two days after its MGM+ debut, and two months before Tom Holland’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits cinemas. Live-action Spider-Man outings have always been pretty scarce, and it is five years since Spider-Man: No Way Home broke box office records and delivered plenty of fan-service in the right way, with its multiverse story seeing many former Spider-Man villains returning, such as Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin and Jamie Fox’s Electro. 2026 will be the first time two live-action Spider-Man projects have released in the same year, and being very different to each other will no doubt mean that both can be hugely successful in their separate mediums.

Of course, this is not the only time we will be seeing Spider-Man on screen over the next year or two. Tom Holland is expected to return for Avengers: Secret Wars if he does not make an appearance in Avengers Doomsday, and 2027 will finally see Beyond the Spider-Verse arrive in cinemas, bringing the ground-breaking animated trilogy to a close next summer. As one of the most recognizable and profitable superheroes of all time, Spider-Man’s movie appearances have always been quite sporadic, from the swift releases of Sam Raimi’s trilogy, to the short-lived Andrew Garfield run, and then Tom Holland’s three solo movies and multiple MCU appearances. Over the next two years, it feels like Spider-Man is about to get a lot more attention in some unique and exciting new projects that will further cement his position as the biggest superhero in comic book history.

Release Date

May 27, 2026

Network

MGM+

Showrunner

Oren Uziel, Steve Lightfoot