Following Amazon MGM studio's new Nicolas Cage-starrer Spider-Noir hitting Prime Video earlier this week, reports have been swirling online surrounding the Spider-Man show's suspected huge budget, which has left fans of fellow Amazon series The Boys pretty confused.
According to 3DVF, Amazon committed almost $400 million to Spider-Noir. Now, it is not clear where this number has come from, as neither Amazon nor Sony Pictures Television has confirmed a budget. However, back in 2024, Puck News reported that Spider-Noir's budget was part of the reason why filmmaking duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ended up having a falling out with the studio.
A $400 million budget isn't too far-fetched, as Forbes predicts that the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power cost Amazon somewhere between a whopping $750 million and $1 billion to make. Whether or not the $400 million budget is accurate, it has been enough to cause a stir among The Boys' fanbase.
Amazon has not revealed what it cost to make The Boys season 5, but fans seem to think it was nowhere near Spider-Noir's suspected budget. Dexerto predicts that each episode of The Boys season 4 would have cost around $15 million each to make, which totals to $120 million. So if The Boys season 5 was allocated around the same amount, that means that Spider-Noir could have cost over three times more.
"The betrayal of the century," said one Boys fan on Twitter, and another replied, "Man, we can't stop thinking about what would happen if they gave that budget to The Boys." However, fans don't have an issue with Spider-Noir. They just expected more from The Boys' last hurrah.
In the lead-up to the final season, Boys fans were expecting a huge final battle right at the end. This was kind of hinted at, between showrunner Eric Kripke saying that the final season would go "scorched earth," and the finale's poster depicting Butcher facing Homelander backed by tons of flying Supes. But the last scene was really more of a one-on-one between Butcher and Homelander. You can read more about that in our The Boys season 5 finale ending explained.
This comes just days after The Boys fans started to ponder what Homelander actor Antony Starr meant when he teased that the worst thing the Supe has ever done. Could it be that The Boys season 5 had to cut back on certain scenes? Kripke did warn fans ahead of time that he didn't have a Game of Thrones battle-level budget to work with, but it seems as though audiences have been left wanting more.
Both Spider-Noir and The Boys are available to watch in full on Prime Video now. For more, check out our guides to best shows on Prime Video and all the other new TV shows you need to know about.
