Actor Nicolas Cage has mentioned that he ‘in all probability received’t’ work with Amazon once more after variations over how the Amazon Prime Video sequence Spider-Noir was dealt with. The critically acclaimed and Emmy-winning present was cancelled after only one season. Cage, who performed the titular function, has now mentioned that he refused to signal a waiver allowing the utilization of synthetic intelligence on the present, which can hinder his return to the platform.
Nicolas Cage on Spider-Noir and Amazon
On Saturday, Nicolas Cage attended the New York Comedian Con, the place he opened up about his expertise of engaged on Prime Video’s Spider-Noir. “Amazon is a really AI-friendly firm, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI. I’m not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, join these dots! I’m not a member of their membership. I didn’t signal the waiver to allow them to use AI on ‘Spider Noir.’ I’m in all probability not going to be working with that studio once more, however that’s okay.”
Spider-Noir was abruptly cancelled by Prime Video and MGM after its first season, regardless of receiving optimistic opinions and powerful viewership. Simply days later, the Nicolas Cage-starrer secured a number of wins on the 2026 Emmy Awards. The sequence received awards for stunt coordination for comedy programming, sound enhancing for a one-hour comedy or drama sequence, title design, particular visible results in a single episode and cinematography for a sequence.
At Comedian Con, Nicolas Cage added that he’d fairly work with ‘GenZ’ administrators who’re ‘doing issues by hand’. The actor added, “I bought to get with these younger administrators who’re Gen Z, they usually’re going at it their very own method, whether or not it’s by the YouTube tradition or no matter it’s. They’re doing it from scratch and by hand. I wish to get with that.”
All about Spider-Noir
The Spider-Noir character debuted within the animated Into the Spider-Verse movie, the place it was voiced by Nicholas Cage. The actor introduced the character to live-action with its personal present this yr. Spider-Noir follows Ben Reilly, a down-on-his-luck non-public investigator in Nineteen Thirties New York who’s “pressured to grapple together with his previous life following a deeply private tragedy, as town’s one and solely superhero.” The present premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 25 Might.
Nicolas Cage will quickly be seen within the fifth season of HBO’s True Detective, an replace the actor shared on the NYCC, a lot to followers’ shock. The actor admitted that the information wasn’t out, however he needed to speak about it with followers.