4 secret Spider-Man scripts landed at Prime Video — 900 characters in play, heroes unknown
The Amazon–Sony Spider-Man situation is my favorite ongoing telenovela, and this week delivered a fresh episode. Days after Spider-Noir got the axe, four brand-new Spider-scripts are quietly sitting on desks at Prime Video.
Which characters? Unknown. Titles? Unknown. Loglines? Locked in a vault, presumably guarded by lawyers in web-print ties.
First, a moment for the fallen
Let's recap the chaos, because it's exquisite. Spider-Noir — Nicolas Cage in the 1930s, trench coat, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes — was cancelled after one season, and then days later strolled into the Creative Arts Emmys and won five statues. Cancelled on Thursday, awarded by Sunday. The streaming industry remains a beautifully broken slot machine.
Cage, for his part, responded like a man who has transcended the renewal cycle entirely, telling Deadline:
"For me, one season is perfect… Onwards, upwards, inwards."
Inwards! He's fine. He's more than fine. He's already somewhere we can't follow.
Now, the four mystery envelopes
The new scripts come from a lineup that is, frankly, overqualified:
- Kelvin Yu — creator of American Born Chinese
- Alison Tatlock — Emmy-nominated for Better Call Saul, now of Pluribus
- Ben Nedivi & Matt Wolpert — the For All Mankind co-creators
- Megan McDonnell — WandaVision alum
One, maybe two of the four will actually go to series. The rest join Silk: Spider Society — developed for years, then scrapped in 2024 — in the great development drawer in the sky.
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The 900-character buffet
Here's the deliciously unhinged context: Sony's TV deal covers roughly 900 Marvel characters tied to the Spider-Man rights. Nine hundred. That catalog runs from genuinely iconic (Silk, Spider-Gwen, Black Cat) to characters whose entire canon is one panel and a dream.
Four scripts. Nine hundred characters. The odds that at least one show stars someone you'd fail to identify in a police lineup: high, and I'm rooting for it.
Meanwhile the movie side is printing money — Brand New Day is past $2.3 billion worldwide — so nobody's walking away from this table. The spider-shows will continue until morale improves. Place your bets now; my money's on whichever script Tatlock wrote, because the Better Call Saul people do not miss.
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