Just days ago, Amazon moved forward on Noir, a live-action series starring Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man Noir. It’s a role that fans have been eager to see Cage return to since he first played him in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. But the progress on that show likely contributed to the demise of another. Variety reports that Silk: Spider Society is no longer moving forward at Amazon.
No surprise here. The project has been in the works for years, and recently went through a creative overhaul for retooling to appeal to a “male-skewing audience.” When Noir was announced, Amazon said nothing about Silk, obviously writing on the wall.
Silk was planned to be the first live-action Spider-Man series for Amazon MGM. The series would’ve followed student Cindy Moon, who was bitten by the same radioactive spider as Peter Parker. The character has actually appeared in multiple MCU movies played by Tiffany Espensen, albeit in very brief cameos: Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, and the extended cut of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Angela Kang was to act as showrunner, following her three-season run on The Walking Dead.
Silk will be shopped to other networks, and we’ll see how that goes. A couple of years ago I would’ve called it a no-brainer that a studio would grab it. But now, after a string of recent Spidey failures for Sony and dwindling interest in superhero shows, it’s unlikely to happen.