Nicolas Cage Didn’t Sign AI Waiver For ‘Spider-Noir’ & “Probably” Won’t Work Again With “AI-Friendly” Amazon; Teases ‘True Detective’ Role

Nicolas Cage told a New York Comic-Con audience today that, yes, he’s likely to do a season of HBO’s True Detective, as rumored, and no, he’s not likely to work again with Spider-Noir streamer Prime Video because Amazon is “very AI-friendly.”

Currently at work on the film Perish, Cage took part in a Spotlight panel at Comic-Con this morning, during which he seemed to confirm the Season 5 True Detective scuttlebutt.

According to multiple media outlets, Cage addressed the True Detective plans while discussing the logistics of balancing feature films and television roles.

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” he said, adding, “What do I mean by necessity? Feed the family, and don’t do too many movies back to back to back. So I think I’m probably going to do another season of television. I think I might do a season of True Detective. That’s OK that I’m the first to announce that, right?”

Cage has apparently been in talks for a True Detective role since last year.

As for AI, Cage is no fan. In fact, he wouldn’t sign an AI waiver when he signed up for the sole season of Prime Video’s Spider-Noir.

“How do you survive AI?,” Cage said today. “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company to the tune of 50 billion dollars invested in OpenAI. I am not an AI-friendly actor….I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let them use AI on Spider-Noir. I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.”

Cage added that he’d prefer to work with young Gen Z directors who are “going at it their own way, whether it’s through the YouTube culture or whatever it is.”

“They’re doing it from scratch and by hand,” he said. “I want to get with that.”