Nicolas Cage Says He Channeled Humphrey Bogart For Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Nicolas Cage said that he channeled Humphrey Bogart for his performance as Spider-Man: Noir in the upcoming Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

He said: “There are multiple Spider-Men in different dimensions that are kind of colliding together. My character’s Spider-Man Noir. He’s really Peter Parker from the ’30s. I tried to channel those noir films with [Humphrey] Bogart, and have those kinds of sounds that he might make with [James] Cagney, or Edward G. Robinson, that kind of way of talking. I tried to give the character that. It was a lot of fun. I think it should be quite funny. The movie definitely has a sense of humor, and that’s a good thing because it’s good for the whole family.”

The film will be released on December 14. It also features the voices of Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Kimiko Glenn and John Mulaney.