Prime Video has ended Nicolas Cage Spider Noir after one season, and Cage says that is exactly enough for the series. He called the run “perfect” after the platform decided not to move ahead with a second season.
Cage put the case in plain terms: “For me, one season is perfect, having said what I wanted to say with this dangerous, innovative, pop-art Spider-Man.” He added, “Onwards, upwards, inwards.”
Spider-Noir’s 92% Rotten Tomatoes score
Spider-Noir posted a 92% critics score and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, then collected 11 Emmy Award nominations. That made it Prime Video’s most nominated series in 2026, even though the company still chose not to continue it. Cage’s first TV role therefore ends with a strange split result: strong awards attention, but no second season.
The show also arrived in an unusual form, released in both color and black and white. That gave it a distinct presentation inside TV, where the same series had to work visually in two formats while still building enough audience to justify another run.
Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot
Spider-Noir came from co-showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal as executive producers. Cage later told Variety that “whether it happens or not, all of us achieved what we set out to do, and it works on its own.”
He has also said he came to the role with a specific movie vocabulary in mind, drawing on Howard Hawks, Double Indemnity with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, and the work of Stan Lee. In June, Cage said he wanted to channel “the essence, mannerisms and vocalization” of those older films and collide them with Spider-Man, which helps explain why the series looked and felt unlike most TV entries in the genre.
Madden on November 18
Cage’s next Prime Video project is Madden, which premieres November 18. In Madden, he portrays John Madden, so the streamer is not losing Cage; it is simply moving him from one release to the next while leaving Spider-Noir at a single-season finish.
The cleaner read is that Prime Video valued the cut line more than the awards count. Eleven Emmy Award nominations and strong Rotten Tomatoes scores were enough to keep the series in the conversation, but not enough to guarantee more episodes, and Cage sounds unbothered by that tradeoff.
