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As fans continue to wait patiently for a new trailer of The Amazing Spider-Man, Columbia Pictures believed the time was ripe to reveal their official plot synopsis for the summer release. Check it out below and sound off with your thoughts.
Plot Concept: One of the world's most popular characters is back on the big screen as a new chapter in the Spider-Man legacy is revealed in "The Amazing Spider-Man." Focusing on an untold story that tells a different side of the Peter Parker story, the new film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, with Martin Sheen and Sally Field. The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay written by James Vanderbilt, based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, and Matt Tolmach are producing the film in association with Marvel Entertainment.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" is the story of Peter Parker (Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents' disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father's former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors' alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
The Amazing Spider-Man swings into 3D/2D/IMAX theaters on July 3, 2012.
@nemesis Ha Ha you fail.
As for the synopsis, it looks like they're taking a Ultimates approach to this thing by retooling the origin. I swear if it leads to that storyline that bombed from the 90's where Parker's parents were Russian spies but then turned out to be clones I'm going to lose it.
I still can't buy the fact that a high school kids develops such elaborate web-shooters that not even NASA would be able to develop. For ME personally, it takes away the plausibilty of the reality DESPITE the fact that it's a comic book movie with a giant Lizard man in it. haha
I also dont like how it's a whole new reality and beginning. I mean i know it's a reboot and all, but I just wish it was a continuation somehow. Imagine what the Non-comic fans are thinking...."Wait, what? He's back in high school? Where's Mary Jane? where's Harry Osborn?? Who is this blonde chick??...."
Pointing out the Obvious here, it's funny how almost every comic book film since 'Batman Begins' has the same formula of using a secondary villian in the first movie, and then hinting at the more well known villian in the second film. How about reading the Spiderman comics and try telling a Marvel Story and not copying Christopher Nolan in style and structure.
...continuing from Violator...
..."I thought he only met Gwen Stacey in the 3rd film, and here they are together in the beginning?" "I thought Dr. Connors was his teacher in college"..."why is he getting his powers differently from the first movie?"
Totally agree they shouldn't have rebooted so quickly. A continuation or a "prequel" back to his teenage years would have been better. And I agree about the shooters like Violator, I know Peter is a briliant scientist, but it would take him forever to come up with a design like that for the shooters. I always thought Peters's webs should have come from a power not a device.
Train wreck. Sorry, but it is true. Let Marvel have Spidey back, please for love of all things comics. Damn Sony and damn Fox.
This is going to suck. I can say the quick reboot is due to Sony Pictures losing the license back to Marvel if they didn't release a film by 2012.
So it's believable that someone gets bit by a radioactive spider gets super strength, senses, climb on walls but can't invent a web fluid? c'mon. You all sound like Sam Raimi.
There are kid geniues out there. Besides, we don't know the whole part of the story. Maybe in this movie, Pete's dad was a genius scientist who was on his way of creating this formula and Pete just finishes/copies his work?
@cineman
And Nolan copied Raimi's style and structure from Spiderman for Batman Begins. Prior to Batman Begins, the origin of Batman was never told except in flashbacks in both the 1989 film and Returns. Warner saw the success of Raimi's Spidey so they had Nolan tell Batman's story from the beginning until he becomes the hero at the end. As for using a secondary villain in both films, Nolan used Scarecrow and Ghul to disassociate himself from the previous Batman movies since they had never been used before and this was a reboot. Well, Amazing Spidey is also a reboot and using a villain they haven't used in the movies before to also disassociate from the Raimi films.
If you recall, Batman Begins made some decent cash but not enough to say it was a mega hit. I'm betting it had to do with a reboot too "soon" and the choice of villains. I'm sure that is why they decided to have Joker in TDK (Joker vs Batman is the big seller after all). We'll see how Amazing Spidey does. If it's a huge megahit, I could see other villains from his rogues gallery show up before Goblin, Venom and Doc Ock (other choices, Mysterio, Scorpion, Kraven) but if it doesn't do too good, I could see a new Goblin played by a big name actor show up in #2.
I call it that The Lizard will appear as nothing more than a jumped up Jurassic Park velociraptor.
I like the use of OSCORP, as this suggests that maybe they're setting the scene for The Green Goblin in the sequel.
The only thing I didn't like about the original Spider-Man with Tobey Maguire was the whole depiction of Gobby (Battle Armour). I'd love to see him shown correctly by a director whose ready to have fun and just say: "Hey... if audiences accept a kid who shoots webs from his wrists and swings from buildings, I'm sure they'll buy a nutcase villain who dresses like a Goblin and has a mechanical flying bat".
We will accept it.
And we'll love every minute.