Spider-Noir Creator Reveals Season 2 Plans After Prime Video Cancellation

Amazon announced last week that it would not pick up its acclaimed TV series Spider-Noir for a second season on Prime Video. A few days later, the Marvel spin-off won five Emmy awards. This gives the show the most wins ever earned by a series canceled after a single season. All eight episodes were released on Prime Video on May 27, to rave reviews.

In an interview with Variety, series co-creator and showrunner Oren Uziel discussed the situation. He outlined that the second season would likely have followed Ben Reilly, played by Nicolas Cage, as he took on a new case in a fresh locale. “If I had my druthers, it would be probably another location,” Uziel said. “There are so many L.A. noirs we could have dove into. There are European noirs we could have dove into. There are other places to go. You’re starting in 1933. Where is that heading? It’s heading toward just a most cataclysmic time — World War II. There was a lot of storytelling that could have happened there.” The first season of Spider-Noir was set in New York.

Uziel described the show’s Emmy wins as “bittersweet”

Uziel also spoke about what Emmy night was like for the cast and crew so soon after the show was canceled. “I thought it was going to be disappointing timing at first,” Uziel said. “I didn’t want people to go to this big night on Sunday having to worry or think about something disappointing or sad. But the truth is, it became kind of a big celebration of what we accomplished together.”

The show won awards for stunt performance, sound editing, title design, special visual effects, and cinematography. “When we won an award, we all got very excited and then, it started to snowball,” Uziel said. “It felt like when you’re at a softball game for your kids, and you just want them to get hits. Then they start to get hits, so you start to feel good about it.”

Overall, Uziel expressed mixed feelings about the situation. “We made a very closed-ended show. There’s a reason we were honoring these old noirs. The story begins when the client comes into the private detective’s office, and it ends when they solve the case. So, it was nicely buttoned up. We told a story. It felt a little bit like a long movie. So, it’s bittersweet to not get right back to work with this cast and crew. But also, I have no regrets.”

Even with that sense of closure, the showrunner remains hopeful he can reunite the group for another project. “We’ve talked a bit and we feel the same way,” he said. “It’s sad to not do this again, but we also got to do exactly what we set out to do. And he’s such a star. He’s such a leading man. To make these eight episodes, his first TV show, was just a dream. So I would love to do it again with Nic.”

While some fans hope that the Emmy wins might encourage Prime Video to reverse course or prompt another streamer to pick up the series, Uziel remains skeptical. “We haven’t gotten there yet,” he said. “I literally do not know the legalities and complications of that. But I expect that it’s a complicated proposition.”

Source: Polygon