The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Synopsis

Columbia Pictures announced today that filming has begun on The Amazing Spider-Man™ 2 in New York. The film is the first in the history of the franchise that will be filmed entirely in New York City and New York State.

The sequel to last year’s critical and box office hit The Amazing Spider-Man, the film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Shailene Woodley, Dane DeHaan, Colm Feore, Paul Giamatti, and Sally Field.

In The Amazing Spider-Man™ 2, for Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), life is busy – between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen (Emma Stone), high school graduation can’t come quickly enough. Peter hasn’t forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away – but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro (Jamie Foxx), emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.

The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & Jeff Pinkner, with a previous draft by James Vanderbilt, and based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach are the producers.

The film’s key behind-the-scenes team includes director of photography Dan Mindel, production designer Mark Friedberg, editors Pietro Scalia and Elliot Graham, and costume designer Deborah L. Scott.

The latest chapter in the Spider-Man story is set for release in 3D on May 2, 2014.

Jamie Foxx on Electro Costume

“It won’t be green and yellow. It will be a different color. They (the producers) want something for the future. They want to have it more grounded and not as comic bookie, so it won’t be green and yellow. They want to try new things, like a liquid rubber and things like that, and there are all these bolts and stuff in my arms when they are hanging me upside down and trying to figure out what happen. How did he become this way? So, it will be some new stuff.  In the script, this villain is the first time it’s be written well. Andrew Garfield and Marc Webb both commented on how great the script is, so it should be an exciting time.”

If any villain needs a costume change before heading to the big screen, it’s Electro.  His suit is cheesy even for comic books.  It will be interesting to see what they come up with, it’s hard to end up with something worse.  But more so than Electro’s costume, I am worried there are going to end up being way too many characters in this film.  Hopefully they find a way to balance them all.

Martin Sheen Returns as Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man 2

“Well they called me back, I don’t know what the part’s going to be but I’m going to be Uncle Ben once again in Spider-Man next year. We shoot in February.” -Martin Sheen


Giving Uncle Ben some more screen time is a good idea.  They can always just have some flash back scenes with him to develop the character more and show why he was so important to Peter Parker.  I just hope they don’t pull a Spider-man 3 type of thing and involve Uncle Ben in Electro’s origin.

Jamie Foxx on Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2

It’s not much information but here it is:

“[He's a] genius electrician-type person, and he gets the short end of the stick from the whole world… [T]he next thing you know, he turns it on.”

Hopefully he will prove me wrong but I still can’t really get behind Foxx as Electro.  Electro himself needs a lot of changes made to be able to adapt him to the big scene because he is pretty lame so maybe they will come up with something worthwhile.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Starts Filming in February

Andrew Garfield (Spider-man) on where he wants the sequel to go:

“I feel really excited, I feel like we got over a hump with our first one.  We had to reinstate the character, and we had to reinvigorate an audience to the character. And I hope to bring more of this theme—the theme of the orphan. I wanna keep exploring that theme of being fatherless, being motherless, searching for purpose and finding a purpose within himself, being a self-made man, I guess.”

I haven’t been very fond of a lot of the casting news from this movie but I’m sure the director knows what he is doing.  Hopefully it will all turn out well.

Marc Webb on Jamie Foxx, Electro and The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Some interesting casting news from The Amazing Spider-man 2.  It looks like Jamie Foxx with be playing the villain Electro.  With the choice of villains in this new Spider-man series, it has taken a much more science fiction type feel than the previous Spider-man series.  I’m not so sure about Jamie Foxx being Electro but you never know, he might do a good job.  I’m sure the character will be very different than the yellow and green spandex version from the comics.

“I think Jamie Foxx is electrifying!  I think Jamie Foxx is one of the best actors around today. He’s such a great character actor and he’s a really brilliant guy. I would love to work with him and you’ll be hearing more on that shortly, I’m sure.”

“I like Electro, I’m fascinated by Norman Osborn and the different inflections of him. And Harry. Mary Jane and Gwen are always interesting to me.”

“What makes villains interesting to me is what they bring out in Peter, What challenges they provide for him. What’s great about Marvel and other comics is that often there’s a pre-existing relationship… It’s not just about the physical conflict he has, but the emotional ones as well.”

“What’s exciting about moving forward is that, in the first movie, I had to still honor some of the important elements of the origin story, But I also wanted to redefine the context of it because I’m building a different universe than what we’ve seen before. A lot of the nuance is quite different. Now, as we’re approaching the sequel, it’s really exciting because I feel quite liberated. I have a universe that’s my own. I don’t have an obligation to the origin story. It’s pretty fun and exciting and I can dig deeper into the parents.” -Marc Webb

Mary Jane’s Role in The Amazing Spider-Man

The Mary Jane role is proving to be only a very small part in Amazing Spider-Man 2 but blossoms into an integral lead for the planned third movie as the studio seeks to build to the classic “Death of Gwen Stacy” story.

Shailene Woodley has apparently been cast in the role.  It will be interesting to see how they handle the love triangle and if and when Gwen Stacy dies.

Shailene Woodley Possible Mary Jane in The Amazing Spider-Man 2

This could be our next MJ in the Spider-man movies.  From what I have heard, she isn’t a very good actress and I don’t know that she looks the part at all but rumors are she is close to being cast.  So it looks like they are going to start a love triangle in the sequel to The Amazing Spider-man.  One has to wonder if Gwen Stacy will meet the same fate as she did in the comics or if they will mix things up for the movies.