Tangled Webs: SPIDER-NOIR gets emmys… but no Season Two.

The webs surrounding Spider-Noir have been decidedly tangled for Amazon‘s acclaimed alt-world take on the web-head mythology.

It was the first television project for Nicolas Cage who starred as Ben Reilly, a version of Marvel‘s key character that took place in a different 1930s in which Ben had received his powers from an experiment gone awry, but had given up fighting crime after huge personal loss. Instead he made his money from beign a private detective. That is, until circumstances mean he has to once again assume the identity of ‘The Spider’. The concept was based on an alt-world multiverse version originally published by Marvel Comics.

At the ‘Creatives’ half of this month’s Emmy awards, the series got eleven nominations and five wins. Those were for: Stunt Coordination for Comedy Programming, Sound-editing for a One-Hour Comedy or Drama Series, Title Design, Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode and Cinematography for a series.

Unfortunately, those successes came within hours of the news that the show had been cancelled and would not get a second run. Ironically, this makes it the highest-winning show to not get renewed.

Though the story – which could be watched in colour or monochrome – was self-contained, there was certainly a desire from the creative team (including showrunners/executive-producers Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot) to continue, perhaps moving the story to a new location (possibly from New York to Los Angeles) and chronologically closer to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Uziel has not ruled out shopping Spider-Noir to another platform though he’s acknowledged that could be complicated given the rights issues.