For the unaware, there is, in fact, a new Spider-Man movie coming this summer - marking, coincidentally or not, the 10th anniversary of the first film. However, studios being studios, and these latter days of reboots, re-dos, do-overs, do-unders being what they are, Sony figured they couldn't get along with Sam Raimi and his ideas for a fourth flick, and decided to hit the reset button. So we're starting again from first positions with an all new Spider-Man series, staring that one guy from The Social Network (Andrew Garfield).
Spider-Man doing... something that will hopefully make sense later
Anyhow, there is now an official studio synopsis (and Merrick from AICN) for The Amazing Spider-Man. You can read the Sony marketing department’s attempts to get you excited and pumped and howling for the second Spider-Man origin story in a decade. It’s seems to be pretty much the same story, except now we have Gwen Stacy instead of Mary-Jane, The Lizard instead of the Green Goblin, and a mysterious briefcase (shades of Pulp Fiction?). Oh, and the film is also going to be in 3D (like every film released since Avatar, and to very few people's actual delight, seemingly).
Here’s the synopsis, straight from the beautiful PR horses' mouths:
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 for Columbia Pictures, which will open in theaters everywhere in 3D on July 3, 2012.
"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.
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