Prime Video has decided not to move ahead with a second season of Spider-Noir, ending the series after one run even as Nicolas Cage called that run complete. Cage said one season was “perfect,” saying he had said what he wanted to say with the “dangerous, innovative, pop-art Spider-Man” and adding, “Onwards, upwards, inwards.”
The cancellation lands now because Cage has already framed the project as finished on his side, while the show itself arrived with unusual momentum. Spider-Noir was his first TV role, and it posted a 92% critics score and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, then collected 11 Emmy Award nominations, the most of any Prime Video series in 2026. It was also released in both color and black and white, a stylistic choice that fit the series’ offbeat pitch from Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot.
Cage had signaled in June that the role was built from old movie instincts. He said he wanted to go back to ’30s and ’40s films, watch Howard Hawks, think about Double Indemnity with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, and mix that feel with Stan Lee’s Spider-Man. He also said he had been friendly to streaming long before it was fashionable, arguing it would keep actors working and keep the work available. That makes the end of Spider-Noir less a reversal in his own thinking than a reminder that critical praise does not always guarantee another season.
That gap is the story here. The series was widely praised, drew strong viewer response, and was described as largely complete, with only a few loose threads left, yet Prime Video still chose not to continue it. The likely reason, by the logic of television economics, is simple enough: a show can be admired, can win nominations, and still fail to justify the cost of another round if its audience is respectable rather than explosive.
Cage remains in business with Prime Video, and his next project for the service is Madden, which premieres November 18. For Spider-Noir, the final word is Cage’s own: one season was enough, and the work stands on its own.
