Spider-Noir Canceled; Deadline Says Clone Saga Series Nears Amazon Order

Prime Video will not bring Spider-Noir back for a second season, ending Nicolas Cage’s live-action Marvel series after one eight-episode run. The cancellation comes despite 11 Emmy nominations and billions of U.S. Nielsen viewing minutes, but Amazon has not publicly given a single, definitive reason for the decision. Deadline now reports that a separate Amazon and Sony project inspired by Spider-Man’s Clone Saga is nearing a series order. It has not been formally ordered.

Spider-Noir Won’t Return for Season 2

Deadline and Variety both confirmed in early September that Prime Video and MGM+ are not moving forward with a second season of Spider-Noir, the series produced by Sony Pictures Television that starred Cage as Ben Reilly, a down-on-his-luck private investigator in 1930s New York forced to confront his former life as the city’s masked protector. Season 1’s eight episodes debuted domestically on MGM+‘s linear channel on May 25, 2026, then rolled out globally on Prime Video two days later, on May 27, in more than 240 countries and territories.

Respectable Viewership and a Record Emmy Haul

The cancellation isn’t a case of a show nobody watched. Per Nielsen’s streaming measurement, Spider-Noir opened at No. 2 among original series on the U.S. streaming chart in its first week, with roughly 851 million minutes viewed. Over its first six weeks, it drew approximately 2.6 billion U.S. viewing minutes — a Nielsen figure specific to U.S. streaming measurement, not a global or worldwide total.

The show also picked up 11 Emmy nominations, the most of any Prime Video series in this year’s field, spanning craft categories including production design, cinematography, music composition, sound editing and visual effects. Deadline noted the cancellation landed one day before the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony where those nominations were set to be recognized. At that ceremony, Spider-Noir went on to win five Creative Arts Emmys — for stunt coordination, sound editing, single-episode special visual effects, cinematography and title design — arriving just days after the cancellation was announced.

So Why Was It Canceled?

Amazon hasn’t issued a public statement laying out a specific cause, and there’s no confirmed line connecting a single factor to the decision. What’s actually on the record, per Deadline’s reporting, is business context rather than an official explanation: despite the strong opening, Spider-Noir didn’t sustain the staying power of several other recent Prime Video originals and dropped out of the platform’s daily Top 10 relatively quickly. Deadline’s reporting frames the combination of that viewership trajectory against an expensive, visually ambitious production as the likely factors weighed in the decision — not a number Amazon has confirmed. No verified production budget has been published for the series, and none is repeated here.

Why the Dual Black-and-White and Color Format Mattered

Part of what made Spider-Noir an unusually complex production was its signature gimmick: Prime Video released every episode in two versions, “Authentic Black & White” and “True-Hue Full Color,” letting viewers pick either format. That wasn’t a case of shooting the series twice — the same photographed footage was designed and finished to hold up in both presentations, which meant cinematography, production design, lighting and prosthetic makeup all had to be built to read correctly whether the image ended up in black-and-white or color. That cross-format design work is part of the added complexity trade reporting points to when discussing the show’s production costs.

Season 2 Had Been Creatively Possible

The cancellation isn’t proof the show was always planned as a one-and-done limited series. Cage told Collider he’d heard “inklings” of ideas for where a second season could go, including taking the character to other countries and cultures. Season 1 does tell a complete, self-contained story, but the people behind it had discussed continuing Ben Reilly’s story rather than treating it as strictly closed-ended. Creative openness to more, though, is different from an actual Season 2 order — none was ever given.

What Season 2 Might Have Looked Like

In a September 11, 2026 interview with Variety, showrunner Oren Uziel described where a second season might have gone — stressing these were early ideas he’d considered, not an approved or commissioned plan. Uziel said he would have preferred moving the story to a new location: “If I had my druthers, it would be probably another location. There are so many L.A. noirs we could have dove into. There are European noirs we could have dove into.” Either direction would have sent Ben Reilly into a new case beyond the confines of Season 1’s story.

Uziel also pointed to where the show’s 1933 setting was naturally heading: “You’re starting in 1933. Where is that heading? It’s heading toward just a most cataclysmic time — World War II.” He didn’t lay out specific plot points, so the WWII era is a direction he was weighing, not a confirmed storyline.

None of this amounts to a revival in progress. Asked about shopping the show elsewhere, Uziel said, “We haven’t gotten there yet. I literally do not know the legalities and complications of that.” He also reiterated that Season 1 was built to stand on its own: “We made a very closed-ended show… it was nicely buttoned up. We told a story.”

Uziel used the same interview to push back on reports that Spider-Noir carried a $400 million season budget: “People keep saying it was $400 million. I was like, ‘Wow! That would be great.’” He didn’t offer an alternative figure, so no verified production budget is confirmed here or anywhere else in this article.

Amazon and Sony’s Marvel TV Deal Isn’t Over

Amazon and Sony’s collaboration on Sony-controlled Marvel characters is continuing. A September 29 Deadline exclusive identifies the project previously described as nearing an order: a live-action series drawing on the comics’ later Clone Saga material, focused on Ben Reilly and Kaine Parker. Deadline says Kelvin Yu is writing, and Amy Pascal, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are expected to executive produce with him. According to the report, it would debut on MGM+ before streaming on Prime Video, following the distribution pattern used for Spider-Noir.

Prime Video is closing in on an order, according to Deadline’s sources; that is not a formal greenlight. Representatives for Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television declined comment. Neither company has announced an official series title, cast, episode count or release date.

What Would the Reported Clone Saga Series Adapt?

Deadline points to Ben Reilly and Kaine Parker, whose comic-book stories are part of Spider-Man’s Clone Saga. The trade cautions that the comics are inspiration rather than a fixed screen plot: its sources differ on whether the series would retain the characters’ comic origins or change their identities. No specific comic twist or other clone has been confirmed for the adaptation.

Deadline has not reported a casting or continuity link between this project and Cage’s Spider-Noir, even though that series also called its lead Ben Reilly. It has not established a role for Peter Parker or a connection to Tom Holland’s Marvel films. The new project’s story and screen versions of Ben and Kaine remain unannounced.

It’s also worth keeping the different pieces of the Spider-Man rights landscape separate. Spider-Noir sat inside Sony’s deal with Amazon for television projects built around Sony-controlled Marvel characters — it was never part of the MCU, and it has no established connection to Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films or the animated Spider-Verse movies, in which Cage voiced a different incarnation of Spider-Man Noir. Those remain separate screen versions of the character unless Sony says otherwise.

What’s Still Unknown

Amazon has not confirmed an exact reason for Spider-Noir’s cancellation or published a production budget. Deadline has identified the reported next project, but Amazon and Sony have not formally ordered or named it. Its cast, continuity, episode count, production dates, release date and precise approach to the Clone Saga remain unknown.