Spider-Man Noir on Amazon Tapes featured Steve Lightfoot as co-showrunner

The live-action Spider-Man Noir series being worked on at Amazon has brought on Steve Lightfoot as co-director, diverse I learned exclusively.

The show was first reported on Amazon in February. Oren Uziel is the writer of the project and will serve alongside Lightfoot as co-director and executive producer.

As previously mentioned, the untitled series will follow an older superhero in 1930s New York City. A person with knowledge of the project says that the show will be set in its own universe and that the main character will not be Peter Parker.

This isn’t Lightfoot’s first foray into the Marvel universe. He previously developed and served as showrunner for the Netflix series “The Punisher” starring Jon Bernthal, which ran for two seasons before Disney decided to pull all Marvel content to its streaming platforms. Most recently, he created and served as showrunner for the series “Shantaram” on Apple TV+, based on the book of the same name. His other credits include “Hannibal,” “Narcos,” and “Behind Her Eyes.”

Lightfoot is repped by WME and The Curtis Brown Group.

The Spider-Man Noir show is the second known project based on Marvel characters controlled by Sony at Amazon. It was previously announced that Amazon is moving forward with Angela Kang’s “Silk: Spider Society” series, with several other shows in the works. It’s unknown at this time what other Marvel characters will be featured in other Amazon shows, though Sony currently controls over 900 characters associated with the Spider-Man franchise.

Uziel developed the show in collaboration with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and former Sony president Amy Pascal, all of whom are executive producers. Pascal executive produces via Pascal Pictures. Sony Pictures Television is the studio, with Lord and Miller currently under an overall deal there.