The thing with the SPUMC – the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters – is that, while it may not always be pretty (Morbius, we’re looking at you), it’s nothing if not unpredictable. One minute you’re scratching your head as you Google a Z-lister comic reserve deep-cut called El Muerto because he’s acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting a film with Bad Bunny; and then the next, you acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure hit with news that a live-action Spider-Man Noir series is in the works, and embark on believe that miracles do exist after all. According to Variety (and confirmed on Twitter by manufacture r Christopher Miller), the black-and-white, Nazi-fighting, egg-cream-drinking riff on eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullybody’s favourite Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man is set to star in his own series over at Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service.###Unconnected to the version of the character we met in Into The Spider-Verse (so no Nicolas Cage noir-ing it up in/with regard to’concerning’regarding us in live-action, sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious ly), this new Spider-Man Noir project will be written and executive manufacture d by The Lost City scribe Oren Uziel. The series follows an older, more grizzled version of the web slinger from 1930s New York, and will be manufacture d by Spider-Verse overlords Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer Sony head Amy Pascal. The reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue joins Silk: Spider Society as the second Sony Spidey-adjacent project in the works at Amazon, and adds to a growing list of upcoming SPUMC projects that includes the Dakota Johnson Madame Web movie, Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Kraven The Hunter, and an as-yet-untitled Venom threequel.###Despite mixed results in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Sony’s Spiderverse thus far, with over 900 Marvel characters at the studio’s disposal, there remains massive potential in/with regard to’concerning’regarding exciting stories to be told with the kinds of characters who wouldn’t otherwise fit into, say, an MCU. So, aldespite’in spite of’albeit we’ve been burned bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e (again, Morbius, we’re looking at you), we’re still intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully excited to see more web slinging shenanigans thwipping onto our screens in the near future. After all, as a wise (Spider-)Man once said, we don’t pick the ballroom – we just dance.