Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Nicolas Cage will not return as Spider-Man Noir in the sequel

After bearing his fangs as Dracula yesterday in Chris McKay’s Renfield trailer, Nicolas Cage is ready to give an update about his Spider-Man Noir character from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. With so many Spider-people swinging in for Sony and Marvel’s animated sequel, Spider-Man Noir will be among them. Wrong. According to an exclusive report from Screen Rant, Cage says his moody and monochromatic version of the wall-crawler will not appear in the sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

While talking about Cage’s new (and first) Western film, The Old Way, Screen Rant’s Caitlin Tyrrell asked if the unpredictable actor was involved in the upcoming animated film. Sadly, the answer is no.

“You’d have to ask Sony,” Cage confessed to Tyrrell. “I don’t know what’s going on with that. No one’s spoken to me about that. Ask them. I don’t know. I really don’t. I wish they would. I love Spider-Man Noir, too. I think that’s a great character. Spider-Man’s the coolest superhero. And then you combine that with Cagney and Bogart and Edward G. Robinson, come on, it’s a great character.”

Way to Morb things up, Sony! Cage’s Spider-Man Noir is pure gold in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and you’re going to leave him on the cutting room floor? The new film does feature an incalculable amount of Spider-people, but still. Cage gives everything he has and more to every performance and would have been a great addition to the film. Ah, well, I can’t be too mad. The new movie looks incredible, and we need to make room for Ghost-Spider (Hailee Steinfeld), Spider-Woman (Issa Rae), Spider-Punk (Daniel Kaluuya), Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac), and countless others.

Per the official synopsis, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will find Miles Morales returning for “an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.” Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will debut on June 2, 2023, followed by Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse on March 29, 2024.

Are you disappointed Nicolas Cage won’t return to the Spider-Verse to play Spider-Man Noir? Which new character(s) are you looking forward to meeting? Let us know in the comments.