Amazon’s latest Spider-Man live-action series, Spider-Man Noir, has adopted a co-showrunner for the project. According to Deadline, and first reported by Variety, Steve Lightfoot (The Punisher, Shantarum) will take the reigns as co-showrunner. This series will be derived from its various Marvel comics.
The series is executively produced and written by Oren Uziel (22 Jump Street, The Lost City) and will take place in New York during the 1930s. Spider-Man Noir tells the story of an old and graying superhero; in a recent development from our last story, a source from the series states to Deadline that Spider-Man Noir will be in its universe that holds an entirely different Spider-Man that is not Peter Parker.
In addition to being co-showrunner, Lightfoot will also executively produce the series alongside Uziel. Uziel established the series with Academy Award-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producers Christopher Miller (Clone High, Cocaine Bear), Phil Lord (The Lego Movie, Strays), and Amy Pascal (Little Women, The Post), all of whom will also be executive producers.
Sony Pictures Television, which currently holds an overall deal with Lord and Miller, will be the studio to produce the series.
This Amazon series will be the first live-action of its kind, considering that this version takes place during the Great Depression. In the Spider-Man comics, a “spider-god idol” bites the teenager Peter Parker, leading him to exhibit superhero powers.
Spider-Man Noir has already dipped his toe into the realm of film and TV alike, appearing in the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man, which Milo Ventimiglia (Sandy Wexler, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) voices, and the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Lightfoot, who is nominated for a BAFTA award, created and took over as showrunner of Shantarum, which streamed for one season on Apple and starred Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy, Pacific Rim). Prior to Shantarum, Lightfoot also served as the creator and showrunner of Marvel’s The Punisher for both seasons on Netflix.
Other works for Lightfoot include working as the executive producer and writer for NBC’s well-received Hannibal series during its third season and writing for Netflix’s Narcos.