Spider-Noir Canceled After One Season — What Happened to Nicolas Cage's Marvel Series and What Sony Is Developing Next

Prime Video will not bring Spider-Noir back for a second season, ending Nicolas Cage’s live-action Marvel series after one eight-episode run. The cancellation comes despite 11 Emmy nominations and billions of U.S. Nielsen viewing minutes, but Amazon has not publicly given a single, definitive reason for the decision.

Spider-Noir Won’t Return for Season 2

Deadline and Variety both confirmed in early September that Prime Video and MGM+ are not moving forward with a second season of Spider-Noir, the series produced by Sony Pictures Television that starred Cage as Ben Reilly, a down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York forced to confront his former life as the city’s masked protector. Season 1’s eight episodes debuted domestically on MGM+’s linear channel on May 25, 2026, then rolled out globally on Prime Video two days later, on May 27, in more than 240 countries and territories.

Respectable Viewership and a Record Emmy Haul

The cancellation isn’t a case of a show nobody watched. Per Nielsen’s streaming measurement, Spider-Noir opened at No. 2 among original series on the U.S. streaming chart in its first week, with roughly 851 million minutes viewed. Over its first six weeks, it drew approximately 2.6 billion U.S. viewing minutes — a Nielsen figure specific to U.S. streaming measurement, not a global or worldwide total.

The show also picked up 11 Emmy nominations, the most of any Prime Video series in this year’s field, spanning craft categories including production design, cinematography, music composition, sound editing and visual effects. Deadline noted the cancellation landed one day before the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony where those nominations were set to be recognized.

So Why Was It Canceled?

Amazon hasn’t issued a public statement laying out a specific cause, and there’s no confirmed line connecting a single factor to the decision. What’s actually on the record, per Deadline’s reporting, is business context rather than an official explanation: despite the strong opening, Spider-Noir didn’t sustain the staying power of several other recent Prime Video originals and dropped out of the platform’s daily Top 10 relatively quickly. Deadline’s reporting frames the combination of that viewership trajectory against an expensive, visually ambitious production as the likely factors weighed in the decision — not a number Amazon has confirmed. No verified production budget has been published for the series, and none is repeated here.

Why the Dual Black-and-White and Color Format Mattered

Part of what made Spider-Noir an unusually complex production was its signature gimmick: Prime Video released every episode in two versions, “Authentic Black & White” and “True-Hue Full Color,” letting viewers pick either format. That wasn’t a case of shooting the series twice — the same photographed footage was designed and finished to hold up in both presentations, which meant cinematography, production design, lighting and prosthetic makeup all had to be built to read correctly whether the image ended up in black-and-white or color. That cross-format design work is part of the added complexity trade reporting points to when discussing the show’s production costs.

Season 2 Had Been Creatively Possible

The cancellation isn’t proof the show was always planned as a one-and-done limited series. Cage told Collider he’d heard “inklings” of ideas for where a second season could go, including taking the character to other countries and cultures. Season 1 does tell a complete, self-contained story, but the people behind it had discussed continuing Ben Reilly’s story rather than treating it as strictly closed-ended. Creative openness to more, though, is different from an actual Season 2 order — none was ever given.

Amazon and Sony’s Marvel TV Deal Isn’t Over

This is the part easy to miss in cancellation headlines: Amazon and Sony’s collaboration on Sony-controlled Marvel characters is continuing. Deadline reports the two companies are still developing multiple projects together, and one is described as nearing a series order. That’s a meaningful distance from an actual greenlight — “nearing” is not “ordered,” and neither Deadline nor Amazon has named which character or project that is. Nothing here confirms Amazon has ordered another Spider-Man-adjacent series, and no title should be assumed.

It’s also worth keeping the different pieces of the Spider-Man rights landscape separate. Spider-Noir sat inside Sony’s deal with Amazon for television projects built around Sony-controlled Marvel characters — it was never part of the MCU, and it has no established connection to Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films or the animated Spider-Verse movies, in which Cage voiced a different incarnation of Spider-Man Noir. Those remain separate screen versions of the character unless Sony says otherwise.

What’s Still Unknown

Amazon hasn’t confirmed an exact reason for the cancellation, hasn’t published a production budget, and hasn’t named the project reportedly nearing a series order. Until Amazon or Sony says more, the honest summary is: Spider-Noir is over after one season, the partnership that made it continues, and what comes out of that partnership next hasn’t been announced.