Nicolas Cage‘s Spider-Noir series just made its villain lineup impossible to ignore, and the names attached are not messing around. In a featurette released exclusively through IGN on Wednesday, Prime Video officially confirmed the four major antagonists Ben Reilly will be up against when Spider-Noir premieres on May 27.
Prime Video drops a villain featurette
The reveal had been building for months through promotional posters and trailers, but this was the first time each villain was confirmed by name, with the actors speaking about their roles directly.
Brendan Gleeson plays Silvermane, the central mob boss and primary antagonist of the series.
Gleeson described him as “psychopathic, but also a little bit smarter than your average narcissist,” which is exactly the kind of sentence that makes you immediately want to watch eight episodes of television.
Jack Huston, grandson of legendary director John Huston, whose 1941 noir classic The Maltese Falcon was one of the show’s primary creative inspirations, takes on Flint Marko, better known as Sandman.
Huston described him as “the ultimate anti-hero,” adding that his sandy condition is slowly killing him. Showrunner Oren Uziel summed the character up simply, saying, “he’s really a bit of a tortured soul, and for me those make the best villains.“
Abraham Popoola plays Lonnie Lincoln, aka Tombstone, in what will be the character’s live-action television debut.
Popoola said his version is “way more interesting” than past iterations, linking the classic comic book character to a much more grounded story.
The casting is particularly significant given that Tombstone is set to appear in three completely separate Spider-Man projects in 2026 alone, with Marvin Jones III playing a different version of the character in Spider-Man: Brand New Day this summer.
Andrew Lewis Caldwell rounds out the four as Megawatt, a deep-cut villain fans had widely assumed would turn out to be Electro.
Caldwell had his own take on what separates his character from the rest of the rogues’ gallery: “There’s all these other bad guys with powers, but I think they’re trying to solve a problem. Dirk is the problem.“
The series follows Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly, an aging private investigator in 1930s New York, forced back into his life as the city’s only superhero following a personal tragedy.
It was shot with black-and-white cameras and filters to recreate the look of early 1930s noir cinema, though Prime Video will offer both the black-and-white version and a full-color option for viewers.
Cage himself said of the character, “This Spider-Man is fresh and of a time of dangerous gangsters in the 30s noir style. You can see the weight of danger, but you get a sense that this is just the beginning.”
Spider-Noir premieres on MGM+ on May 25 and drops globally on Prime Video on May 27.
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