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Is this a "the premise is different enough that Marvel isn't going to sue" deal, or is this a forgotten Marvel title that Disney passed on, and another studio picked it up?
I admire how Nick Cage insists on taking roles meant for actors 20-30 years younger, and then he manages to fulfill the physical requirements of the role just to spite everyone around him...
Sony have the rights to produce live action Spider-Man content. They gave up on the movies and had Marvel make the Tom Holland ones for them, but they've been trying to get a tv show going for years. There were insane reports about a show where Aunt May is a spy or something. Or maybe that was a movie, I can't remember. They did make live action Spider-Man adjacent movies like Madame Web (lol) and Morbius (lol) but only Venom was a success and I don't think they're doing any more.
WEIRDLY THOUGH, Cage isn't playing Peter Parker in this: he's playing Parker's clone Ben Reilly. So it may well be that they legally can't do Peter Parker in live action for some rights reason? Nobody seems to know. (They do have versions of Parker in the animated Spider-Verse movies.)