

Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man:Īn intellectually-gifted yet socially-introverted teenager struggling to find his place in life ever since his parents disappeared when he was a child.

The thief escapes as Peter finds Ben dead on the sidewalk.Īndrew Garfield (top) and Emma Stone (bottom) at San Diego Comic-Con in 2013 While searching for Peter, Ben attempts to stop the thief, and is killed. At a nearby deli, a cashier refuses to let Peter buy milk when Peter is two cents short when a thief suddenly raids the store, Peter allows him to escape.

At home, he and Ben argue, and Peter leaves. Peter forgets to do so, distracted while at Oscorp helping Connors regenerate the limb of a laboratory mouse. His uncle changes work shifts to meet with the principal, and asks Peter to walk May home for him that night. In school, Peter is 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 is being pressed by his superior, Dr. A sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, was released on May 2, 2014.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. The film was a box office success, grossing over $757 million worldwide, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 2012. The reboot received a mostly favorable 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, and the introduction of the Lizard as the villain for being too surreal and unrealistic for the film.

The film premiered on June 30 in Tokyo, and was released in the United States on July 3, ten years after release of Spider-Man (2002), in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D and released in home media in November 2012. Sony Pictures Entertainment built a promotional website, releasing many previews and launched a viral marketing campaign, among other moves.
