According to a report amplified by DiscussingFilm, multiple Spider-Man projects similar to Spider-Noir are currently in active development. Each one is following the same formula: take "Spider-variant," then drop them into a completely different genre, and build a prestige story around that premise. The source describes this strategy as "following a little bit of that same formula [as Spider-Noir], that same idea of taking a genre and elevating it by putting a Spider-variant into it."
Spider-Noir:
At the front of this new wave is "Spider-Noir," which is a live-action limited series premiering on MGM+ on May 25, 2026, and globally on Prime Video on May 27, 2026. The show stars "Nicolas Cage," reprising his iconic voice role from the animated Spider-Verse films, this time in live-action as Ben Reilly, an aging, down-on-his-luck private investigator and the only superhero operating in 1930s New York City.
It is set in during the Great Depression, and the series blends the gritty soul of classic film noir — think The Maltese Falcon - with the mythology of Marvel's Spider-Man universe. The series was developed by Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, produced under the oversight of "Phil Lord and Christopher Miller."
They are the Oscar-winning duo behind the original Into the Spider-Verse, alongside longtime Spider-Man producer Amy Pascal. Filming took place in Los Angeles between August 2024 and March 2025, with the production briefly halted due to the Southern California wildfires in January 2025.
The cast includes Lamorne Morris as Robbie Robertson, Brendan Gleeson as the menacing Silvermane, Li Jun Li as Cat Hardy (a period take on Black Cat), and Jack Huston as Flint Marko (Sandman). The show's tagline, "With no power, comes no responsibility," is a deliberate, darkly comedic inversion of Spider-Man's most famous line.
"They're following that same idea of taking a genre and elevating it by putting a Spider-variant into it."
— Source via DiscussingFilm, April 2026
Spider-Punk, Spider-Gwen, and Beyond:
In February 2026, Sony Pictures Animation presidents "Kristine Belson" and "Damien de Froberville" officially confirmed in an interview with 'The Hollywood Reporter' that two major Spider-Verse spinoff films are actively in development: a solo Spider-Punk movie and a solo Spider-Gwen movie.
Both characters became fan-favorite breakouts from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), and both represent entirely different genres and tonal registers exactly in line with the formula being championed by Spider-Noir's success. Spider-Punk, which is voiced by Academy Award winner "Daniel Kaluuya," who plays Hobie Brown from Earth-138, is perhaps the most thrilling of the upcoming projects.
Kaluuya is not only expected to reprise his role as voice actor, but is also co-writing the script alongside writer "Ajon Singh." As of December 2025, Kaluuya confirmed that the script was in its "finishing stages." The Spider-Gwen solo movie, meanwhile, starring the voice of Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy / Ghost-Spider, is also confirmed to be in active development, though fewer details have been made public.
Rumors of both animated and live-action versions have circulated, with Sony producer Amy Pascal separately confirming a Spider-Woman project is also in the pipeline, though whether that is the same as the Spider-Gwen movie or a different character remains unclear.
While a Spider-Man 1602 project has not been officially confirmed, insiders and fans have pointed to the Marvel Comics storyline, which was set in Elizabethan England with a spider-powered hero, as an obvious candidate for Sony's formula.
The concept of a Spider-Man story set in a Renaissance or medieval world fits the "genre + Spider-variant" template almost perfectly, and several sources within the entertainment press have cited it as a likely future project alongside other potential genre blends: a Western-set Spider-Man, a horror-infused Spider-Man, or even a sci-fi spy thriller.
Reasons For Sony To Bet Everything on the Genre-Variant Formula:
It is clear that the Spider-Verse formula works because it doesn't just tell superhero stories; it uses superhero mythology as a vehicle for genuinely distinct cinematic experiences. Each universe in the Spider-Verse has its own visual language, its own genre, its own emotional register. That's what makes the multiverse concept genuinely exciting rather than merely convenient.
The studio is now operating on two simultaneous and independent tracks: the animated Spider-Verse universe (which includes the trilogy's conclusion, Beyond the Spider-Verse, and the spinoffs for Spider-Punk and Spider-Gwen), and the live-action genre-variant track (led by Spider-Noir). Sony can make a noir detective show, a punk rock animated film, a medieval adventure, and a horror story, all under the same umbrella without any of them contradicting or undermining the others.
Questions For You:
- What are your thoughts on this Sony's formula?
- Which Spider-variant would you love to see get their own series next?
- If you could pair any Spider-Man with a movie genre (like Horror, Western, or Sci-Fi), what would it be?
Let me know in the comments, where you can also provide the latest news so I can make a breakdown of it.