Wherever Empire goes, the news follows — and the news smells like fresh Spider-Noir casting. Ever since we first found out that Nicolas Cage is set to bring his fedora and trench coat wearing Spider-Man Noir into live-action, we've been chomping at the bit to learn more about what the folks at Sony and Prime Video are cooking up with their Spider-Verse inspired series. Now, per Deadline's reporting, we're getting word that The Banshees Of Inisherin's Brendan Gleeson and Boardwalk Empire alum Jack Huston are the latest talents tooling up for some early 20th century crime-fighting shenanigans.
Back in July, it was revealed that New Girl star Lamorne Morris has signed on to play Daily Bugle journo Robbie Robertson in the show, with The Marvels' Abraham Popoola and Babylon's Li Jun Li also joining the increasingly buzzy cast in recent weeks as a World War I veteran and a nightclub singer respectively. As for Gleeson and Huston, the former is reportedly set to play a New York mob boss (a nice counterpoint to his hospital guard role in upcoming DC musical Joker: Folie À Deux), whilst the latter — most recently seen in Lulu Wang's Prime Video series Expats — is being vaguely described as a bodyguard in the show. As for the particular *ahem* web of intrigue this buzzy ensemble will find themselves in, all we know about the plot so far is that Cage's PI take on Spidey will see the Longlegs star wrestling with his double-life in 1930s New York.
Oren Uziel (The Lost City) and Steve Lightfoot (Hannibal) will serve as co-showrunners on Spider-Noir, with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal all swinging in to produce alongside them. With the storm in an egg cream cup that was the quickly shot down rumours of Beyond The Spider-Verse delays earlier this week, the exciting recent development that Destin Daniel Cretton is circling the Spider-Man 4 hotseat over at Marvel Studios, and now a fresh round of additions to the Spider-Noir line-up, it's a pretty thwipping good time to be a Spidey fan. Excelsior!