Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir . I can sell it to you in one sentence: Nicolas Cage plays a private eye who is also Spider-Man. Nicolas Cage and Li Jun Li in Spider-Noir . The show was always intended for black and white, but my sense is someone at Amazon got cold feet, see, and they panicked, right? And there are, quite simply, very few actors who are better equipped to embody that sort of disembodiedness than Nicolas Cage.