‘Spider-Noir’ Adds Abraham Popoola To Amazon’s Marvel Series

Abraham Popoola (Atlas) has been tapped as a series regular opposite Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir, the upcoming MGM+ and Prime Video live-action series based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir. On the Sony Pictures TV-produced series, which has been renamed from its original title Noir to highlight its Spider-Man universe lineage, Popoola will play a World War I veteran who is looking for an opportunity to get ahead.

In addition to Cage, Popoola joins previously announced Lamorne Morris and Li Jun LI in the series.

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Spider-Noir, from executive producers/co-showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, tells the story of an aging and down on his luck private investigator (Cage) in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city’s one and only superhero.

Harry Bradbeer is set to direct, and executive produce the first two episodes of the series, which Uziel and Lightfoot developed with the team behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal, who also serve as executive producers.

Spider-Noir will debut domestically on MGM+’s linear channel, then globally on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories.

Popoola can currently be seen as Casca Decius, a sleeper-cell AI opposite Jennifer Lopez in Netflix’s sci-fi futuristic film Atlas. He’ll next be seen in John Wick: Ballerina, which Lionsgate is releasing June 6, 2025. In television he will next be seen co-starring in season 5 of Slow Horses for Apple TV+. His previous television credits include The Rig for Amazon; The Curse for Channel 4 and Andor and Extraordinary for Disney+; The Great for Hulu and Starstuck for Max. His other film credits include The Marvels for Marvel Studios, Morbius for Columbia, Disney’s Cruella and Jingle Jangle for Netflix. Popoola is repped by IAG, Artists First, Independent Talent Group, Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.

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