Lamorne Morris joins Marvel’s Spider-Noir as Robbie Robertson

Lamorne Morris is stepping into Marvel’s expanding TV strategy with a role that reaches beyond the usual superhero template. In Spider-Noir, Morris plays Robbie Robertson, a dedicated Black journalist in 1930s New York who is described as hardworking, ambitious and willing to take risks to move his career forward.

The casting gives Morris a prominent place in a series built around Nicolas Cage, who stars as Ben Reilly, an aging private investigator forced to confront the life he once led as the city’s one-time superhero. The project is based on Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man Noir and pushes Marvel further into darker, genre-blending territory, pairing comic-book mythology with detective fiction and a period setting that leans into hard-boiled style.

Morris was cast in July 2024 as a series regular opposite Cage, a move that marks another notable step in a career that has moved from network comedy to prestige drama and streaming work. He is best known for playing Winston Bishop on Fox’s New Girl, and more recently appeared in FX’s Fargo and Hulu’s Woke. That range has made him a natural fit for a role that asks for both comic timing and dramatic weight.

Marvel said Spider-Noir will arrive on May 27 and will be available in both black-and-white and color versions, a release approach that underscores how carefully the series is being positioned. It will debut in the United States on MGM+ before streaming globally on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories, extending the project well beyond a single platform audience.

The series was developed by Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, who serve as co-showrunners and executive producers, alongside Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal. Harry Bradbeer directed and executive produced the first two episodes, giving Spider-Noir a behind-the-camera team with experience across both stylish television and large-scale franchise storytelling. Morris’s casting signals how Marvel’s gravitational pull now reaches into more noir-leaning, prestige-minded projects, not just standard superhero fare.