Spider-Noir is Nicolas Cage’s live-action Spider-Man spinoff, and Sean O’Connell breaks down the biggest new reveals from the show’s first major profile.

On this Heroes Journey Podcast episode, Sean runs through five key takeaways about Spider-Noir: the release window, the option to watch in full color or a black-and-white “noir” presentation, and the biggest curveball of all: Cage isn’t playing Peter Parker. He’s playing private investigator Ben Reilly, with the series treating that name as a story mystery.

Sean also digs into what it means to bring a Spider-Man Noir story into live action (instead of animation), why the character is being positioned like a classic 1930s/40s pulp hero “known as The Spider,” and how this approach could be Sony’s smartest way to build Spidey stories without stepping on the MCU.