Spider-Man Noir Series at Amazon Names Steve Lightfoot as Co-Showrunner

Steve Lightfoot, known for his work at Apple Shantarum and that from Netflix The criminal judge, has signed on to co-show for Amazon’s live-action Spider-Man Noir series based on the Marvel comic, Deadline has confirmed.

As we reported in February, the as-yet-untitled series is written and produced by Oren Uziel (The Lost City). It’s about an older, graying superhero in 1930s New York. A source close to the project told Deadline that the series will be set in its own universe with an alternate Spider-Man character that isn’t Peter Parker.

Lightfoot will serve as co-showrunner and executive producer alongside Uziel.

Uziel developed the series and won an Oscar Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal will serve as executive producers. Sony Pictures Television, with which Lord and Miller have an overall deal, is the studio.

The Amazon project would be the first live-action portrayal of Spider-Man Noir. The alternate version of Spider-Man appears in a version of New York during the Great Depression. In the comics, Peter Parker is bitten by a spider in a spider god, giving him superhuman powers.

The character has already appeared in animated series Ultimate Spider-Manspoken by Milo Ventimiglia, as well as the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider– Fresh.

BAFTA nominee Lightfoot recently served as the series’ creator and showrunner Shantarum with Charlie Hunnam, who starred on Apple for one season. He was previously the creator and showrunner of the Netflix limited series Behind her eyes. He previously served as producer and showrunner for both seasons of Marvel’s. The punisher on Netflix, written for Narcos and was an executive producer and writer of the award-winning NBC series Hannibal for its three-season run.

Deadline’s sister cafe, Variety, was first to report the news.