Coming Soon: The Amazing Spider-Man (Video)

Title: The Amazing Spider-Man

Release Date: 5th July 2012 (Singapore)

On July 20, 2011, the world was given a glimpse of The Amazing Spider-Man movie, nearly a year ahead of its release. 2 theatrical trailers were released. Confused about whether this movie is a new deal or a sequel to the last 3 Spiderman movies? "Read More" to view the trailer and find out more about the history of the movie.

The last Spiderman movie was just shown in 2007 and it only took 5 years for a reboot of the movie. Wondering why? Here's a quick not-so-boring background explanation.

Sony Pictures, who wanted to milk the spiderman series as much as possible cause that's how they make easy money, had plans for a Spiderman 4 and even had their greedy sights on a Spiderman 5 movie. However, the original Spiderman movies' director, Sam Raimi, couldn't agree with Sony Pictures on the plot's creative development. Basically that means how the movie story should be told. Raimi, eventually have had enough, told the Sony Pictures execs to F off and quit, taking Tobey "Spiderman" Maguire and Kirstin "Mary Jane" Dunst with him, thinking that Sony is screwed about making a Spiderman movie without Spiderman.

Sony and its partner, Columbia Pictures, said "meh, we can easily find replacements" and hired a new cast and crew. Too stubborn to let the cash-raking spiderman die and instead of continuing the series with the new crew, which would turn out utter rubbish to see a sequel where Peter Parker is played by a different actor, Sony decided to reboot the series as The Amazing Spider-Man. It's also confirmed that this would be the first in a new series.

NB: This movie is not a retelling of the first 3 movies, they are a new story altogether. The focus will be of Peter Parker developing his super powers. Plus there's no Mary Jane in this one.. :(