'The Amazing Spider-Man': Movie, Starring Andrew Garfield, Name Announced

Spider-Man's future gives a nod to its past.

Sony Pictures announced the title of the new Spider-Man movie today, revealing that the series reboot will be called "The Amazing Spider-Man." That's the name of the original comic book (well, after Spider-Man debuted in Amazing Fantasy #15), and it's appropriate, because the film will take viewers back to Peter Parker's early days as the wall crawler.

Andrew Garfield will play the geeky Parker and conflicted, guilt-ridden Spider-Man (whom he had to bulk up to portray), while Emma Stone will play Gwen Stacey, his high school girlfriend (before he dated the iconic Mary Jane). The film is being directed by Marc Webb. Shooting has already begun.

The full release is below, followed by a new image released by the studio (geek note: you may notice on Spider-Man's wrists that he is wearing mechanical web shooters, as he wears in the comics; in the last round of movies, he was portrayed as naturally shooting web from his own wrists):

"THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN™"

TO BE RELEASED JULY 3, 2012

CULVER CITY, Calif., February 14, 2011 - Columbia Pictures announced today that the title of the next Spider-Man film will be The Amazing Spider-Man.

The studio simultaneously released a photo of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, the first shot of Garfield in the famous full mask and suit (see attachment).

The film, which is now in production and is being shot entirely in 3D, will be released on July 3, 2012. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field. The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt and Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, and Matt Tolmach are producing the Marvel Entertainment production for Columbia Pictures. The executive producers are Stan Lee, Kevin Feige, and Michael Grillo. The film's official website is http://www.TheAmazingSpiderMan-movie.com.

About Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution; television production and distribution; home entertainment acquisition and distribution; a global channel network; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and technologies; and distribution of entertainment in more than 140 countries. Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.sonypictures.com.

About Marvel Entertainment

Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 5,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in licensing, entertainment (via Marvel Studios and Marvel Animation) and publishing (via Marvel Comics). Marvel's strategy is to leverage its franchises in a growing array of opportunities around the world, including feature films, consumer products, toys, video games, animated television, direct-to-DVD and online. For more information visit www.marvel.com.

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Comments

[samuraifrog37]

07:56 AM on 02/17/2011

The Amazing; I could care less

[GerryS]

10:13 PM on 02/16/2011

"Amazing News"??

did they cancel the broadway play?

[SteveDenver]

09:43 PM on 02/16/2011

Garfield in the Spidey suit cuts a nice figure! I always thought he was scrawny, but he has some FINE HAMS: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/andrew-garfields-ass

[WYO PROUD]

08:57 PM on 02/16/2011

If they can work on the movie without aiming for the PG rating they might do the comic some justice. Spiderman 3 butchered my favorite villan "Venom" when they split the film up between 2 other villans.

Venom deserved his own Spidey flick and probably a R rating because of the violent nature of his character.

[DocManhattan]

12:15 PM on 02/16/2011

Well, let's hope they do it right, but it really doesn't seem like it was that long ago that Sam Raimi made his first Spider-Man movie. He made two great movies in the series, then made a complete dog's breakfast of the last one - which was so bad that it seemed like he had no interest in the character any more and was deliberately having a laugh at the audience's expense.

In fact, the awfulness of Spider-Man 3 is the only reason why it might be a good idea to do a reboot. But there ARE an awful lot of super-hero movies around these days ...

If anyone's taking bets, I'm guessing: 'X-Men: First Class' will be great, 'Thor' will be better than many people expect and 'Captain America' will be dreadful.

[sev87]

08:29 AM on 02/16/2011

Web shooters are a setback. It should have always been a biological function of his mutation. For me, the necessity for web shooters diminishes his greatness.

[A Radical Moderate]

09:57 AM on 02/16/2011

Its a return to the original comics though. Far from being a setback.

[Markus Schmid]

06:18 AM on 02/16/2011

Man i hope they don´t screw this one up to.
The good thing is the costume finally looks like spiderman and now he has his web shooters.
so far there are two positive points for this movie.

[lynjs]

10:15 PM on 02/15/2011

I hope to high heaven that they don't mess this up. They should have left it alone in the first place.

[Mainstream American]

08:38 PM on 02/15/2011

Web shooters! Now that's more like it. I mean, didn't it disturb anyone else that he projected a bodily fluid out of his wrists in the Raimi movies?

[JimR]

11:11 AM on 02/16/2011

I was put off by it when I first heard they were going in that direction, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. If he got the powers and abilities of a spider, why wouldn't he also get the ability to produce web fluid?

[DocManhattan]

12:04 PM on 02/16/2011

Yeah, but if you want to go down that route, then there's no reason the web would come out of his wrists. It would undoubtedly come out of somewhere much less flattering.

[Yeah-sure]

04:13 PM on 02/15/2011

Why that's just ... a-MAAAAAYzing!

[roch20]

02:13 PM on 02/15/2011

Meh!

[Dennis Yuen]

02:10 PM on 02/15/2011

The Amazing Spider-Man? Seriously?

[SamShah33]

10:47 AM on 02/16/2011

Thats what spider man is known as in the comics

[CanUFeel2012]

01:41 PM on 02/15/2011

haters gon hate..

[TheBaffler]

02:40 PM on 02/15/2011

Intellectually stunted philistines gon luv.

[CanUFeel2012]

05:15 PM on 02/15/2011

Then you luv it. :?

[SamShah33]

10:47 AM on 02/16/2011

haha!

[Striderxdj]

11:41 AM on 02/15/2011

It irritates me that Hollywood always wants to reboot series/movies that were already successful to scrape the bottom of the barrell for a few more bucks, rather than either rebooting movies that failed because they threw the sources material out the window, or making movies with stories/characters that could potentially be great, ie:

Doom (about Demons, Hell, not some additonal chromosome Resident Evil in space bs)
Street Fighter (Focus on the fighting/different styles against each other, not some cookie cutter action story with sparse fighting scenes awkwardly forced into it)
Half Life
Fallout
Icewind Dale trilogy (or any of the Forgotten Realms stories of Drizzt and friends)
Highlander
Arrested Development

I could keep going but thats a good start.

[JimR]

11:12 AM on 02/16/2011

Hear, hear!

[bmwracer]

10:20 AM on 02/15/2011

Now they got it right: Peter Parker INVENTS his own web shooters.