Spider-Man Spin-Off Silk in the Works At MGM+ & Amazon

A new Spider-Man series is swinging in soon to a TV near you. 

MGM+ has greenlit Silk: Spider Society, a live action series set in the Spider-Man universe. The Sony Pictures Television series is the first of a "suite of live-action television series based on the Sony Pictures universe of Marvel characters, which includes over 900 characters," according to MGM+. 

Silk: Spider Society will be showrun by Angela Kang (The Walking Dead) and will follow Cindy Moon, a Korean-American woman who is bit by the same spider as Peter Parker. Things heat up when she "escapes imprisonment and searches for her missing family on her way to becoming the superhero known as Silk," per the official logline.

Kang developed the series with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal, who will also executive produce Silk. 

"Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Sony’s recent live-action and animated reimagining of the Spider-Man franchise has represented some of the most dynamic superhero storytelling in film," said Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke. "Together with Angela Kang’s creative vision, we couldn’t be more pleased to bring Silk: Spider Society to our MGM+ and Prime Video customers."

Due to a complex rights arrangement, the series will first debut on MGM+, and later arrive on Amazon Prime Video in the United States. 

"I'm beyond thrilled to be joining the Amazon Studios family for this next chapter of my career," said Kang. "I look forward to working with the executive team on diverse, character-forward, watercooler shows for a global audience and am so excited to dive in to my first challenge – bringing Korean-American superhero Silk to life on screen."

Jade Budowski is a freelance writer with a knack for ruining punchlines and harboring dad-aged celebrity crushes. She was previously a reporter/producer at Decider and is a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow her on Twitter: @jadebudowski.