On Friday, Amazon’s Prime Video announced that “Spider-Noir” wouldn’t be back for a Season 2. Two days later, the series landed five wins at the Emmys Night 2 ceremony. According to awards gurus who track these things, that’s the most Emmy wins ever for a series canceled after its first season. (“Lovecraft Country” in 2020 and “My World And Welcome to It” in 1969 each had two wins.) With that Emmy success, could the streamer or Sony Pictures TV reverse course and bring “Spider-Noir” back, or would Sony try to shop it elsewhere?
Co-creator and showrunner Oren Uziel isn’t so sure. But I expect that it’s a complicated proposition.” If there had been a Season 2, Uziel was already kicking around some ideas. For starters, Ben Reilly (played by Nicolas Cage), who keeps his powers as the Spider at the end of Season 1, could easily take on a new case.
There are European noirs we could have dove into. There are other places to go. It’s heading toward just a most cataclysmic time — World War II.
There was a lot of storytelling that could have happened there.” Season 1 of “Spider-Noir” was set in New York, but shot in Los Angeles. So the idea of the setting actually moving out West isn’t too far-fetched. When reached on Wednesday, Uziel was still on a bit of a high from the Emmy wins.
It felt like everybody that I had made the show with was there, because they kind of were. Even the people who weren’t nominated showed up! It felt like a giant family together there to celebrate.” But the timing of Friday’s announcement was a bit unfortunate: It meant that the show’s crew had already just been hit with bad news — would losing the Emmy sting even more?
Turns out he didn’t have to worry. But the truth is, it became kind of a big celebration of what we accomplished together.” That started with the show’s first win of the night, for stunt performance. But then it kept on winning: For sound editing for a comedy or drama series (one hour), title design, special visual effects in a single episode and cinematography for a series (one hour).
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