The details may be different, but the gist is very much the same. This Spider-Man doesn't get mixed up in wrestling, but a fall into a ring does inspire his costume. Peter's connection to this authority figure is not through a friend (this Peter doesn't have any besides Gwen), but through his parents, as his late father was a colleague of Connors. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), whose quest to regrow an amputated arm turns him into The Lizard. The accomplished mentor who emerges as villain is not Norman Osborn/Green Goblin, but Dr. It's not a class trip but on a crashed intern fielding on which Peter gets bit by a radioactive spider.
Having the blonde Gwen, not the redheaded Mary Jane Watson be Peter's love interest is one of numerous ways where Amazing Spider-Man departs from Raimi's Spider-Man. He's picked on at school, where he hones his photographic ambitions and barely earns the notice of classmate crush Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). Peter lost his parents at a young age and has been raised by his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field). Two years older than Tobey Maguire was at the start of his franchise, 29-year-old Garfield plays Peter Parker, a shy, nerdy teenager enrolled at Manhattan's Midtown Science High School. On the heels of his warmly-received romantic comedy debut (500) Days of Summer, Marc Webb would direct from a script by Zodiac's James Vanderbilt (who had worked on the unrealized Spider-Man 4), seven-film Harry Potter scribe Steve Kloves, and seasoned Hollywood veteran Alvin Sargent, who had contributed to all three of Raimi's Spider-Man films. Not merely a personnel change but a reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man essentially remakes Raimi's first Spider-Man, providing a new take on the same origin story that Stan Lee and Steve Ditko told in a 1962 Marvel comic book. Rather than replace the director with someone who would get the cameras rolling soon, Sony pulled the plug.and on the same day announced via Tweet a Spider-Man reboot for summer 2012 theatrical release. But, in January 2010, the project fell apart, Raimi clashing with the studio over plans for the sequel and finding the script insufficient to begin production on Sony's high-pressure timetable. Sony was all set to make a Spider-Man 4 with Raimi still in the helm, Tobey Maguire in the titular role, and Kirsten Dunst as his leading lady. While many these days profess Spider-Man 3 to fulfill the latter test, let us not forget that it was the #1-grossing film of 2007 and had nearly twice as many positive reviews as negative ones. Rebooting is not a new concept, but in general, some time must pass and there has to be some kind of disappointment. Who ever would have guessed that just ten years after the Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man set the box office ablaze and a mere five after its second sequel extended the series' track record of financial success and critical favor, we would have a new Spider-Man franchise gracing theaters? I like the idea of a 19-year-old British man seeing 2002's Spider-Man in a theater and saying "That's gonna be me someday." How preposterous that would seem and yet, Andrew Garfield could have had that experience and lived to prove it right.