Live-action Spider-Man Noir TV series in the works at Amazon

A live-action Spider-Man Noir TV series is reportedly in the works at Amazon.

According to Variety, Amazon is developing a series taking place in 1930s New York City based on a much older Spider-Man. Variety also reports that the series is based in its own distinct universe and that Spider-Man's alter ego in the series isn't Peter Parker.

In the comics, Spider-Man Noir is an alternate version of Peter Parker living through the Great Depression who gains super powers after he's bitten by a venomous spider housed inside a spider-god idol. It seems clear from Variety's report that the Amazon TV series will tell a decidedly different story, at the very least in terms of the superhero's real identity.

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The Spider-Man Noir Amazon series is reportedly being written and executive produced by Oren Uziel, who you might know for his work on a variety of projects including The Lost City starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, 22 Jump Street, 2021's Mortal Kombat, and The Cloverfield Paradox. He's also working on the Borderlands movie adaptation and John Wick 4.

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