Peter forgets to do so because he got distracted while being at Oscorp helping Connors regenerate the limb of a laboratory mouse. His uncle changes work shifts to meet with the principal and ask Peter to walk May home for him that night. In school, Peter is nearly exposed after a basketball challenge with Flash, in which Peter accidentally shatters the backboard glass. Ratha, to devise a cure for the dying head of Oscorp, Norman Osborn. Connors was being pressed by his superior, Dr. He later discovers he has developed spider-like abilities, such as super-strength, sharp senses, reflexes, agility, and speed.Īfter studying Richard's papers, Peter visits the one-armed Connors, reveals he is Richard's son, and gives Connors his father's "decay rate algorithm", the missing piece in Connors' experiments on regenerating limbs. Sneaking into Oscorp, Peter enters a lab where a "biocable" is under development from genetically modified spiders, one of which bites him. Curt Connors at Oscorp in the field of cross-species genetics.
At home, Peter finds his father's papers and learns his father worked with fellow scientist Dr. Years later, a teenage Peter attends Midtown Science High School, where he is bullied by Flash Thompson, and has caught the eye of Gwen Stacy. Peter's parents gather hidden documents, take Peter to the home of his aunt May and uncle Ben, and then mysteriously depart. A sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, was released on May 2, 2014.Ī young Peter Parker discovers that his father Richard Parker's study has been burglarized. The film was a box office success, grossing $758 million worldwide, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 2012. The reboot received a mostly positive reception, with critics praising Andrew Garfield's performance, the visual style, James Horner's musical score, and the realistic re-imagining and portrayal of the title character, but criticized the number of underdeveloped story-lines, noting the film's deleted scenes. The film premiered on Jin Tokyo, and was released in the United States on July 3, ten years after the release of Spider-Man (2002), in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D formats. Tie-ins included a video game by Beenox and Activision. Sony Pictures Entertainment built a promotional website, releasing many previews and launched a viral marketing campaign, among other moves. Michael Riva's last film as production designer was Django Unchained, released five months later and Ziskin's last film as producer was The Butler, released one year later in 2013. Michael Riva and one of the producers Laura Ziskin, who died on Jand June 12, 2011, respectively. This was also the final American film to be scored by James Horner and released during his lifetime, three years before his death on Jfrom an aircraft accident, as well as the penultimate film for both production designer J. 3ality Technica provided 3D image processing, while Sony Pictures Imageworks handled CGI effects.
The film entered post-production in April 2011. Using Red Digital Cinema Camera Company's RED Epic camera, principal photography started in December 2010 in Los Angeles before moving to New York City. New designs were introduced from the comics, such as artificial web-shooters. During pre-production, the main characters were cast in 2010. Columbia Pictures opted to reboot the franchise with the same production team along with Vanderbilt to stay on with writing the next Spider-Man film, while Sargent and Kloves helped with the script as well.
In the film, after Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of a mysterious reptilian foe.ĭevelopment of the film began with the cancellation of Spider-Man 4 in January 2010, ending director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film series that originally featured Tobey Maguire as the titular superhero. The film was directed by Marc Webb and written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves from a story by Vanderbilt, and stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field. It is the fourth theatrical Spider-Man film produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Entertainment, a reboot of the series following Sam Raimi's 2002–2007 Spider-Man trilogy, and the first of the two The Amazing Spider-Man films. The Amazing Spider-Man is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man and sharing the title of the character's longest-running comic book series of the same name.