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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: The latest Spider Man project arrives in a few days,
- 0:05Speaker 2: and out of all the stories that I've been told
- 0:07Speaker 2: about the websling across the decades, this one might stand
- 0:09Speaker 2: out as the most unique. Spider Noir a nineteen thirties
- 0:13Speaker 2: film noir show starring Nick Cage as a more than
- 0:15Speaker 2: middle aged private detective who happens to be Spider Man.
- 0:18Speaker 3: And there's something else that sets it apart from not
- 0:21Speaker 3: only Spider Man, but any TV show that came before it.
- 0:24Speaker 3: They're simultaneously releasing a black and white version and a
- 0:28Speaker 3: colorized technicolor version.
- 0:30Speaker 4: And apparently that's because studio execs were worried teenagers, who
- 0:33Speaker 4: they obviously want to attract with a Spider Man show,
- 0:36Speaker 4: would be alienated by a black and white version.
- 0:38Speaker 2: And Nick had no problem with that. In fact, he
- 0:41Speaker 2: champion releasing both versions because of an added bonus. You
- 0:45Speaker 2: hook teenagers by shooting it in color, which might make
- 0:48Speaker 2: them interested in watching it in black and white.
- 0:50Speaker 3: Which looks incredible, so Nick hopes it might attract some
- 0:54Speaker 3: of them to deep dive into what he calls the
- 0:58Speaker 3: great wealth of American black and white cinema.
- 1:00Speaker 2: He basically thinks it could create some new centophiles. Spider
- 1:04Speaker 2: Noir hits Prime May twenty seven.
- 1:06Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood