Prime Video Cancels Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir After One Season

Eight episodes. Four months. That’s the entire life cycle of Nicolas Cage’s turn as a spider-powered private eye.

Prime Video has canceled Spider-Noir after one season, ending Cage’s live-action run as the wall-crawling hero not long after all eight episodes of Season 1 dropped at once in May 2026.

The numbers looked good until they didn’t

Nielsen recorded 2.6 billion viewing minutes in the first six weeks after the premiere. That’s a real start. But the show fell off Prime Video's top 10 charts quickly, and the early momentum didn’t hold.

The reception wasn’t the problem. Rotten Tomatoes logged 92% favorability from fans and 90% from critics for the crime drama take on the character. Our own take on Season 1 was an 8/10.

“Nicolas Cage’s Bogie-meets-Bugs Bunny pulp hero invigorates the highly entertaining, genre-bending Spider-Noir,” we said at the time of its Prime Video premiere.

A detective story with a color switch

Cage played Ben Reilly, a private investigator with spider-like powers working cases for friends and clients in 1930s New York City. Lamorne Morris appeared as Robbie Robertson, Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy and Karen Rodriguez as Janet Ruiz. Sandman (Jack Huston) and Tombstone (Abraham Popoola) turned up as well.

The most unusual thing about it wasn’t the casting. Viewers could watch the whole series in black-and-white or in color, a toggle that gave the show a built-in reason to rewatch scenes. It wasn’t enough to keep audiences around.

Marvel isn’t finished with Amazon

Spider-Noir was the second Marvel series ordered by Prime Video, and the cancellation doesn’t close the door. More superhero projects could reach the streamer through a multi-title deal between Amazon MGM and Sony Pictures Television. Both are reportedly working on multiple projects, and one of them is said to be nearing a series order, though nothing has been announced.

Amazon, Sony and Prime Video’s larger Marvel plans stay unclear for now. A separate Spider-Man-style project, Silk: Spider Society, was once in the works before it was canceled.

Cage’s detective closed his last case in 1930s New York, in whichever color you chose to watch it.