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Prime Video's Spider-Noir trailer is here, featuring a web-head with a drinking problem and... Electro?

Hold on a minute, is Electro in the Nicolas Cage-starring Spider-Noir series from Amazon? Because it sure as hell looks like that

News by Grant DeArmitt, Staff Writer

Published on Thu Feb 12 2026

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Fans have wanted more Nicolas Cage as a 1930s wall-crawler ever since Into the Spider-Verse introduced us to a Spider-Man who (literally) sees things in Black & White. And now, Amazon's Prime Video is delivering on exactly that, reworking Cage's animated character into the live-action Ben Reilly for their upcoming Spider-Verse adjacent project Spider-Noir. Today, Prime Video dropped the first ever trailer for the project, which appears to introduce a classic Spider-Man villain, reimagined for a hardboiled NYC.

But before we get into that, take a look at the trailer for yourself.

Pretty cool, right? We embedded the full-color version in this article, but Prime Video also released a Black & White version of the Spider-Noir trailer you can watch here. Personally, I'm going to be watching this show in all its monochrome glory, but hey, you do you. Anyway, can we talk about that person shooting lightning out of their hand?

It's a blink and you'll miss it moment that shows up at about the 1:24 mark of the trailer, and I have to say, it's throwing me for a loop. We know that Spider-Noir will introduce us to at least two of his Noir-ized rogues including Silvermane (played by In Bruge's Brennan Gleason) and Flint Marko (played by Fargo's Jack Huston). But this trailer seems to show some 1930s iteration of Max Dillon, AKA Electro, who Spider-Movie fans know as being played by Jamie Foxx in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home.

So what's going on here? Are we just getting a glimpse of an already-known character's powers manifesting electrically? Or has Electro's presence in the series (not to mention casting) just not been announced yet? And if that's the case, are we foolish to hope for even more of the Sinister Six to show up?

We'll just have to wait until Spider-Noir drops on Prime Video May 27 to find out. Or, if you're a subscriber to MGM+, good news: it'll be dropping there two days earlier, on May 25.

Oh, and in the meantime, if you really can't wait to see webslinging by way of hardboiled detective novels, you know you can always read the Spider-Man Noir comics from Marvel. A good detective never heads into a situation without doing their research, after all.

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Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.