While every super-hero fans mind may well be on the impending release of Avengers Assemble, Sony Pictures has decided to fire up their hype machine for the forthcoming cinematic Spider-Man reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man, starring (among others) Andrew Garfield, Martin Sheen and Emma Stone. The film is due in cinemas on July 4th in the UK and July 3rd in the USA (more release dates can be found at Imdb here for other countries) which puts the film in the reasonably comfortable position of avoiding competition with both Avengers Assemble (May 4th) and The Dark Knight Rises (July 20th).
I can’t say I was pleased with the original decision to reboot Spidey so soon, but on reflection I think that was probably my post Spider-Man 3 nerd-rage talking. This new trailer looks pretty good, Garfield is a great actor (see Social Network if you doubt this) and I love Dr. Curt Conners/The Lizard as a villain so I have raised my expectations for this, at least a little. The fact that the creative team has gone for the old school mechanical webbing tech of the earlier comics is also pretty cool and I’m sure that there will be some scene in there where he runs out at just the wrong moment.
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