First look at Nicolas Cage, 60, filming Spider-Man Noir series as he plays ‘aging’ version of the superhero

Nicolas Cage has been spotted for the first time filming the upcoming live-action series Spider-Man Noir, in which he plays an aging version of the superhero.

Spider-Man Noir was created for the comic books in 2008 as a darker, more morally ambiguous version of the classic chipper character.

In this version, Spider-Man is a brooding vigilante in 1930s America who sometimes resorts to bloodthirsty methods in his quest to fight organized crime.

Cage, 60, first appeared in the voiceover role for the critically acclaimed 2018 animated film Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.

Now the character is getting the live-action treatment for the Amazon Prime Video series Noir, which Cage shot in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Fittingly enough, Cage showed up in a costume and look that looked like it was lifted straight out of one of the film noir masterpieces of old Hollywood.

In a touch even more in keeping with the genre, the scene was set in a dimly lit, deserted urban environment after dark.

He was clad in a long dark coat befitting a depression-era detective, over a three-piece suit, and his character had what appeared to be a bruise on one cheek.

At one point he was seen kneeling and staring forward in obvious concern – and at another point he was lying on his back.

In footage surfaced from the set, Cage began the shot lying on his back, then abruptly rolled over and pulled himself up to a kneeling position.

Then he jumped up and quickly shot to the side, after which that particular shot seemed to be over.

Cage bore an uncanny resemblance to Humphrey Bogart, whom he previously cited as one of his influences when he played the character in voiceover in 2018.

“I tried to channel those noir films with Bogart, and have those kinds of sounds that he could make [James] Cagney, or Edward G. Robinson, that kind of talk,” Cage said Entertainment weekly at the time.

In May, it was announced that Cage had been tapped to star in Noir, a live-action series about the character he previously only played as a cartoon.

The logline describes the show as being about “an aging and down-on-his-luck private detective (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero,” via Variety.

Cage, a veteran movie star who won an Oscar in 1995 for his role in Leaving Las Vegas, has never before been a series regular on a TV series.

Two months before the new show was officially announced, he said he was toying with the idea of ​​bringing Spider-Man Noir to the small screen.

“Well, I can say we talked. It’s no secret that I love the character. I think the character offers another mashup of sorts,” he spilled.

“I get to combine my favorite Golden Age performances, Robinson, Cagney and Bogart, with a character that is, I think, widely regarded as Stan Lee’s masterpiece,” he said.

‘I see it as a kind of excursion into a pop art mashup of a kind of Jungian, Lichtenstein mashup via Bogart and Cagney, but nothing is final yet. It’s just a conversation,” he said Collider at the time.

He received critical acclaim earlier this year for his villainous role in the horror film Longlegs, which became a social media sensation.

The film was written and directed by Osgood Perkins, the son of Anthony Perkins, who played the murderer Norman Bates in the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.

Longlegs stars Maika Monroe as an FBI agent on the hunt for a serial killer (Cage) who leaves a note reading, “LONGLEGS,” on the corpse of each of his victims.