The Amazing Spider Man Is Our Movie Of The Week (Int'l)

Name of the movie_The Amazing Spider- Man
Director_Marc Webb
Producers_Avi Arad + Laura Ziskin + Matt Tolmach
Story_James Vandervilt
Starring_Andrew Garfield+Emma Stone+Rhys Ifans+Denis Leary+Campbell Scott+Irrfan Khan+Martin Sheen+Sally Field+Chris Zylka
Music_James Horner
Distributed_Columbia Pictures
Released_June 13th 2012
Running Time_136 Minutes
Language_English
Country_USA
Box Office_521,400,000 USD
Budget_230m USD

The Amazing Spider-Man is a 2012 American superhero film directed by Marc Webb, based on the Marvel Comicscharacter Spider-Man. It is a reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise, portraying the character's origin story and his development into a superhero while still a high school student. The film stars Andrew Garfield in the title role as Spider-Man/Peter Parker, with Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy and Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors.

Development of the film began with the cancellation of Spider-Man 4 in 2010, ending director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film series that had starred Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco. Opting to reboot the franchise with the same production team, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced a July 2012 release date for The Amazing Spider-Man. James Vanderbilt was hired to write the script while Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves helped fine-tune it. Pre-production involved auditioning many actors for the roles of Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy, resulting in the casting of Garfield and Stone. UsingRed Digital Cinema Camera Company's RED Epic camera, principal photography started in December 2010 in Los Angelesbefore moving to New York City. The film entered post-production in April 2011 with the film being shot in 3D with 3ality Technica and with James Horner contributing to the film score.

Sony Entertainment has focused its marketing campaign with a promotional website with released images and three theatrical trailers, along with a prologue screening in certain cities, a video game tie-in being developed by Beenox and a viral marketing campaign among other products. The Amazing Spider-Man premiered on June 13, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan and was released in the United States on July 3, 2012 in 3D and in IMAX 3D. The critical reaction to the film was ranked as "generally favorable" according to Metacritic while in Rotten Tomatoes it has a "certified fresh" score with the consensus reading that it consists of a well chosen cast and direction to allow the film to thrill even though it and the original Spider-Man film have similar plot points due to following the same source material.

Cast

• Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man

An unpopular adolescent struggling to find his place in life ever since his parents disappeared when he was a young boy. Garfield described Parker as someone he can relate to, and stated that the character was an important symbol to him since he was just a little boy. Garfield drew from his life experiences as inspiration for the role, revealing, "I was thinking of my history and thinking of the kid at school who I wasn't as strong as, who behaved badly to a lot of people – including myself – and who I constantly tried to stand up to but never had the physical prowess to". In comparison with the actor who previously portrayed Spider-Man, Garfield said he respects Tobey Maguire as an actor and that when he first saw Maguire play Spider-Man he "was blown away by his interpretation." Garfield said in interviews, including one in which he was interviewed by Maguire, that when he watched the film Spider-Man when he was younger, he would jokingly recite Maguire's lines in the mirror with a friend who would joke that he would never be Spider-Man. On taking over the role Garfield explained, "I see it as a massive challenge in many ways.... To make it authentic. To make the character live and breathe in a new way. The audience already has a relationship with many different incarnations of the character. I do, as well. I'm probably going to be the guy in the movie theater shouting abuse at myself. But I have to let that go. No turning back. And I wouldn't want to."After taking the role, Garfield studied the movements of both athletes and spiders and tried to incorporate them, saying Parker is "a boy/spider in terms of how he moves, and not just in the suit."He also did yoga and Pilates for the role in order to be as flexible as possible. When first wearing the Spider-Man costume Garfield admitted to shedding tears and trying to imagine "a better actor in the suit",which he described as "uncomfortable" and admitted to wearing nothing beneath it since it is skintight. When filming Garfield explained that he had four months of training and described his physical roles on stunts as terribly challenging and exhausting.

• Max Charles portrayed Peter Parker as a 4-year-old.

• Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy

A high school classmate and love interest of Peter Parker,a smart, charismatic and rebellious girl who is the chief Intern at Oscorp.For the role, Stone dyed her hair blonde, her natural hair color even though she is better recognized with red hair.She felt that she had a responsibility to educate herself on Spider-Man, admitting she "hadn't read the comic book growing up, and my experience was with the Sam Raimi movies. . . . I always assumed that Mary Jane was his first love", and having only been familiar with Bryce Dallas Howard's portrayal in Spider-Man 3.Stone said, "There's a part of me that really wants to please people [who] love Spider-Man or Gwen Stacy and want her to be done justice. I hope they'll give me license to interpret her my way."

• Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors / The Lizard

One of Oscorp's leading scientific minds, who attempts to engineer a revolutionary regeneration serum to help regrow limbs and human tissue. Something goes wrong and he is transformed into the monster known as the Lizard.In a September 2011 interview, Ifans said his character spends the majority of the film as a human. While filming for the 9-foot tall Lizard, Ifans was required to wear a CGI suit. Initially, a large stunt-double was used as a stand-in for the role, but Ifans insisted on portraying the transformed character, to which Webb agreed. Commenting on the technology used to bring his character to life, Ifans continued, "I had a green suit on, and then this cardboard head, and these small claws... Each and every time you see the Lizard, the technology is so advanced now that when the Lizard's eyes move, they're my eyes. If I frown or show any emotion, they're my emotions. That's how spectacularly advanced technology is."Ifans also said that he voiced the Lizard as well explaining, "I'm sure the voice will be toyed with in the eventual edits, but when I was shooting the CGI moments, when I wasn't actually human, when I was Lizard, I looked like a crash-test dummy in a green leotard thing. There were many moments when I had to speak to Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone as the Lizard."

• Denis Leary as Captain George Stac Martin Sheen as Ben ParkerGwen's father and a New York City Police Department captain who hunts both Spider-Man out of distrust and the Lizard for his rampage.Leary explained that he did not know much about Spider-Man in the comics and as "more of a Batman guy. Not the '60s [TV version] but the really dark Batman. But my wife was a Spider-Man nut, which was why I went to Tobey Maguire ones." He added that long before he was cast as George Stacy his friend Jeff Garlin, a Spider-Man fan, "said to me, 'The first time I met you, I thought you were George Stacy!' This was like 30 years ago. I was like, 'What?!'"Director Webb said of his casting, "[W]e all trust Denis Leary. He's got this attitude, but you love him. In this movie, he puts pressure on Peter Parker. He's on Spider-Man's case, but you understand him. I've said this before, but good drama comes from competing ideas of what's good."

Peter Parker's uncle. Sheen admitted he was unfamiliar with Spider-Man other than through seeing Tobey Maguire's portrayal in Spider-Man 2, and knew little of the character Ben Parker except for knowing Cliff Robertson had played the part. Sheen described his character as a surrogate father, saying, "I'm dealing with this adolescent who is having problems with changes, with hormones changing and his getting out of hand. I have to give him the marching orders and so forth."Webb said, "You think of Martin Sheen as President Bartlet [of TV's The West Wing]. He has that sense of benevolent authority, but there's something else that's important, in terms of the dynamic that I wanted to explore, vis-à-vis Peter's relationship with his absent parents." Webb feels that unlike the scientifically inclined Peter, Uncle Ben represented the blue collar working man, a gap that could create a dynamic between the characters.

• Sally Field as May Parker

Ben Parker's wife, and Peter Parker's aunt.Field said the main reason she felt she had to be in the film is because of producer Laura Ziskin (they worked together on the 1985 film Murphy's Romance) because she had an instinct that this was going to be her last film to produce. After Ziskin's death Field expressed her gratitude of being a part of both her first and last film to work on. Director Webb felt that "when you cast someone like Sally, they come with a certain level of awareness and real genuine affection, which for Aunt May is an incredibly important thing to have." Webb said that while "we all love Aunt May", he wanted to create a tension between May and Peter. "He's got bruises on his face, and what happens in that moment? That can create some tension, but you want there to be love there. That's what someone like Sally Field gives you."

• Irrfan Khan as Dr. Rajit Ratha

An employee of Oscorp, working under the mentioned but unseen Norman Osborn, and Dr. Connors' immediate superior. Khan said he was offered what he described as this "pivotal role" after appearing in the TV drama series In Treatment.Webb even described himself as a fan of the actor when watching the series along with the films The Namesake and The Warrior. Khan said he was uninterested in the project at first but that both of his sons were excited about it and insisted he take the role.

• Chris Zylka as Flash Thompson

A high school nemesis who picks on Parker. Of playing the role, Zylka said, "You just try to focus. As an artist or as an actor, you just try to focus and stay in that world and block it all out."

Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz portray Peter's parents, Richard and Mary Parker. C. Thomas Howell plays a character named Ray whose son is saved by Spider-Man in the Williamsburg Bridge scene. Hannah Marks portrays Missy Kallenback, an unpopular girl who has a crush on Peter.Kelsey Chow has a small role she named in an interview as high-school classmate Sally Avrilbut who is unnamed in the film and credited solely as "Hot girl". Unlike the previous films, J. Jonah Jameson does not appear. Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee has a cameo appearance, as he did in the previous films. At the 2011 Dallas Comic Con, Lee detailed that he plays a librarian listening to music on his headphones while stamping books, oblivious to the ongoing fight between Spider-Man and the Lizard.Michael Masseeplays the mysterious man in the shadows who talks with Connors in his prison cell in a teaser scene during the end credits.As to the man's identity, director Marc Webb said, "It's intentionally mysterious. And I invite speculation."

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Source; WIKIPEDIA

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