Nicolas Cage on 'Spider-Noir' Getting Canceled: 'Whew, Thank You!'

The star calls its one season 'perfect.' It drew 11 Emmy nominations, a Prime Video high this year, and won five.

Eight episodes into his first regular TV series, Nicolas Cage was out of a job, and he told IGN his reaction was "Whew, thank you!"

That's how he felt when Prime Video passed on a second season of "Spider-Noir," he said in the IGN interview, as Variety reported Sunday. Asked whether Ben Reilly had more story left, Cage said no. Reilly was his down-on-his-luck 1930s New York private eye who's also the city's only superhero.

Cage told IGN it was "a perfect season," and that he doesn't want to get stuck playing one character until audiences tire of him. He called the part a high-risk tightrope act that a second and third season could wear thin.

The show he's glad to leave behind did well by most measures. Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported the cancellation Sept. 4, just as "Spider-Noir" headed into the Emmys with 11 nominations, a Prime Video high this year. It went on to win five, Variety reported. Nielsen's streaming ratings put it at 2.6 billion minutes watched over its first six weeks, according to Variety, and viewers could stream it in color or in black and white.

His next TV job runs one season by design. Cage is starring with Antonio Banderas in the fifth season of HBO's "True Detective," and he told IGN it's better that way.

His break with Amazon goes beyond one show. At a New York Comic Con panel in October, Cage said he hadn't signed a waiver letting the company use AI on "Spider-Noir," and pointed to what he called Amazon's $50 billion investment in OpenAI. He also said he probably won't work with the studio again, and that he's fine with that, according to Variety.

His next movie is still headed for Amazon's streaming service. "Madden," a Cage-led biopic that follows John Madden from his Super Bowl run with the Raiders to the video game named after him, opens in select theaters Nov. 11. It starts streaming on Prime Video on Nov. 18.

Off camera, his fall has been harder. A sinkhole about 25 feet deep opened Sept. 8 at his beachfront house in Malibu and took part of the driveway, The Hollywood Reporter reported. His home was one of 31 properties evacuated.

"I'm currently a little bit homeless," Cage told a Los Angeles Comic Con panel on Oct. 31, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He said he's been living in hotels.

So since early September, Cage has lost a TV show and been forced out of his house. Only one of them got a thank-you.

Source: Variety, retrieved November 9, 2026. Other sources: Variety (2), The Hollywood Reporter, The Hollywood Reporter (2).