Update September 9, 2024: Variety is now confirming Gleeson is set for a main role, believed to be the main villain, in Spider-Noir.
Academy Award-nominated actor Brendan Gleeson has joined Nicholas Cage on the cast of the live-action Spider-Noir series.
This news comes from sources for Variety, which placed The Banshees of Inisherin star in the Spider-Verse spinoff as a villain. He follows yesterday’s reveal of New Girl’s Lamorne Morris playing Robbie Robertson.
Gleeson has had a long and successful career on both the big and small screen. He’s known for movies such as In Bruges, Harry Potter, Gangs of New York, and his award-nominated turn in The Banshees of Inesherin. On television, he’s gone down the grizzled detective show route before with the Stephen King adaptation Mr. Mercedes.
He is set to feature in a DC project before the Marvel Spider-Man spinoff. He has a role in the upcoming Joker: Folie à Deux
Spider-Noir: What do we know?
Spider-Noir’s synopsis tells us this is a ”story of an aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero,”
Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot are co-showrunners of Spider-Noir. Harry Bradbeer is directing and executive producing the first two episodes of the eight-episode series, while Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal are involved as executive producers.
Spider-Noir does not yet have a premiere date; however, the series will debut on MGM+ before it hits Amazon Prime Video.
