Spider-Man returns to the
big screen for the untold story of Peter Parker in Columbia Pictures' new
action-adventure “The Amazing Spider-Man.”
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| Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/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. Screenplay by James Vanderbilt and Alvin Sargent and
Steve Kloves.
“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.
In
beginning a new chapter in the Spider-Man saga, it was important to the
filmmakers to show a side of Peter Parker that moviegoers haven’t seen before.
Avi
Arad, formerly the head of Marvel Studios and now a producer who has shepherded
the Spider-Man films from the very beginning, notes, “Spider-Man has filled
thousands of pages of comic books with hundreds of stories since he debuted
fifty years ago. That’s a deep vein of resources to mine as we look to continue
the story of Peter Parker on the screen.”
“Since
we were reestablishing Peter Parker, we had to build the audience’s
relationship with him from the ground up,” notes director Marc Webb. “In order
to do that legitimately, we begin the story with Peter Parker as a
seven-year-old boy. We see him before his parents left, before they handed him
off to Aunt May and Uncle Ben. This allowed the audience to experience the
significant emotional cues in his life.
“This
Peter Parker is a little different: he’s still an outsider, but he’s an
outsider by choice,” continues Webb. “He has a chip on his shoulder – he’s the
kid who rejects people before they can reject him. The humor, the sarcasm, the
rebellious streak emanates from that little kid who got left behind so long
ago.”
“For
this film, we talked a lot about Peter Parker, a boy who lost his parents at a
very young age – and lost them in a way that’s still a mystery to him,” adds
Tolmach. ”It leaves him with a lot of formative questions – Where am I from?
Who am I? Why did my parents leave? Why did this happen? Who am I going to
become? These are all the primal questions that face our hero. This angle had
not been heavily explored, yet it’s so critical to who Peter Parker is – this
is the essence of a young man’s journey. So we were incredibly excited to go
down this road with the story and these characters.”
“The
things that are unresolved, the things we have to live with, send us down a
road – and that road can make us better people or not,” says Webb.
“A
key part of our orchestration of the story is that everything in Peter’s
journey happens because of his yearning to find out about his father,” says
Webb, concurring. “The sequence of events which leads him to OsCorp and to Dr.
Connors results in his being bitten. I didn’t want the spider bite to be an
arbitrary occurrence, but a representation and result of his desire to fill a
void.”
Opening
across the Philippines on Friday, June 29 in IMAX 3D, Digital 3D, 2D and
regular theaters, “The Amazing Spider-Man” is distributed by Columbia Pictures,
local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International. Visit http://www.columbiapictures.com.ph
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