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Like all his fellow Hollywood superstars of the 1990s, Nicolas Cage will be moving to the small screen. He will soon be the star of the series Spider-Man Noir. A television transition that he had long postponed. And he had to watch breaking Bad to be convinced:
In an interview with the New Yorker, Nicolas Cage admits that doing television never appealed to him.But what fascinates me, as an actor, is the time you can take to express something on screen, compared to cinema!” He recounts having had a revelation in front of Walter White:
“I saw Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad staring at a suitcase for half an episode… Just him on the floor, staring at a suitcase wondering what's in it… Do I open it? Do I not open it? Watching that, I thought, we don't have time to do that in a movie!”
Nicolas Cage so sees the small screen as “uan opportunity to go further, to expand the game a little. Even if I don't know if the project I'm exploring at the moment (Spider-Man Noir) will have room for that” he tempers. “I think it's going to be more of an episodic popcorn entertainment.”
The 60-year-old actor then defines Spider-Man Noir like a “a Pop-art mashup, like a Roy Lichtenstein painting with some sparkles…“He then confided that he no longer wanted to portray violence on screen:”I don't like violence. I don't want to play people who hurt people. One of the things I like about this show is that it's fantasy. It's not really people hitting people. It's monsters…”
Nicolas Cage ends by specifying that Spider-Man Noir will make 8 episodes.
No release date on Prime Video yet.