Andrew Garfield traveled around New York during breaks playing basketball with children in his Spider-Man suit.
Andrew Garfield admitted that he cried the first time he put on the Spider-Man costume.
In this film, Spider-Man uses artificial devices to shoot his webs, inspired by the original comics in which he had similar devices (though he would later gain a superhuman ability to shoot webs). Marc Webb explained that the web-shooting was a creative decision to showcase Peter's intelligence: "We wanted to emphasize that these are things Peter Parker does and that he is special even if he feels like an outsider."
Michael Papajohn, who briefly appears in the bridge scene as the driver of Irrfan Khan's character, is the same actor who played the car thief who (was thought to have) killed Uncle Ben in the original Spider-Man (2002).
Denis Leary was very impressed by Andrew Garfield. He especially felt Garfield's real tears fall on him during his character's death scene.
It was released on the 50th anniversary of Spider-Man's first appearance in the comics and 10 years after the premiere of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002).
Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield began dating during filming.
Andrew Garfield took up yoga and Pilates to be more flexible in the role of Spider-Man.
While filming the normally silent scene in which Peter goes into the room with the spiders to collect webs, Andrew Garfield asked for "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) to be played.
Instead of making extensive use of CGI animation, it was a creative decision by the producers to have most of the stunts performed practically on platforms by the actors/stunt performers. Marc Webb explained that they wanted to make the film more physical and therefore more realistic. During filming in New York, the crew built a rig hundreds of feet long on Riverside Drive in Harlem, and Andy Armstrong built a car rig with a series of cables to assist the VFX, which required an incredibly rich amount of acrobatics.
Before filming, Rhys Ifans researched his role by meeting several real disabled people (those missing limbs). He also spent a month performing his daily activities using only his left hand, including tying a tie. There was a small section in the script where Connors ties a tie, but it was not filmed because it took too long.
Sally Field hated the finished film and stated that the only thing she liked about it was working with Andrew Garfield.
To prepare for the role of Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield studied the movements of spiders and tried to incorporate them as much as he could: "Parker is a boy/spider in terms of how he moves, and not just in the suit."
After Denis Leary was cast, his friend Jeff Garlin, a Spider-Man fan, said, "I knew you would get the part." Leary replied, "Why? Because I'm such a great actor?" Garlin then said, "no, because you look just like Captain Stacy."
In this film, Captain George Stacy is strongly opposed to Spider-Man's activities (though he eventually admits he was wrong), and Gwen Stacy is both aware of and supportive of Peter Parker's role as Spider-Man. This is in complete contrast to the mainstream comics, in which George Stacy is a strong supporter of Spider-Man and admits on his deathbed that he is aware of Peter's identity, while Gwen Stacy blames Spider-Man for her father's death and therefore Peter never tells her about his identity. In the "Ultimate Spider-Man" reboot, Gwen eventually learns and accepts Peter's secret identity.
Sony Pictures had actually begun pre-production on what was originally conceived as "Spider-Man 4," a direct continuation of the original film trilogy, before choosing to make the film a reboot instead. To launch a new trilogy in the series, Sony re-signed director Sam Raimi and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst (each reportedly paid 30 million dollars) for a three-film deal. Scripts were commissioned from writers James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, David Koepp and Gary Ross, and each writer earned more than 1 million dollars or more for their services. The story was to introduce the Vulture as a new villain: Raimi first approached Ben Kingsley for the role before choosing John Malkovich. Malkovich had actually been planned to play Norman Osborn in the original film series but had to withdraw due to scheduling conflicts. Alongside the Vulture, the film was to introduce the villain Felicia Hardy, a character to be played by Anne Hathaway. In the first story, Hardy was to be her comic-book alter ego Black Cat, but when the script was later rewritten, Hardy was reimagined as an original character named Vulturess (after departing, Hathaway would take on a similar role in The Dark Knight Rises (2012)). Raimi also expressed interest in Dylan Baker returning as Dr. Curt Connors, who would transform into the villain The Lizard, but Executive Producer Avi Arad vetoed the idea. With development costs rising at a rate exceeding 100 million dollars, Raimi, unhappy with the repeated versions of the script, and due to growing tension between Raimi, Maguire and the studio, Sony chose (in January 2010) to cancel the film and reboot the series instead. Raimi, for his part, said this was for the best, noting that he had been unhappy with Spider-Man 3 (2007) because of studio interference and that he "hated" the story concocted for the proposed fourth film.
Director Marc Webb, casting Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, said: "Though his name may be new to many, those who know this young actor's work understand his extraordinary talents. He has a rare combination of intelligence, wit and humanity. Mark my words, you will love Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker."
Ben Parker's line "With great power comes great responsibility," prominent in Sam Raimi's films, is not spoken even once in this film. The voicemail Ben leaves mentions it but never quotes it directly. This is actually more consistent with Amazing Fantasy #15, the story's first telling, where it was simply a text box reading "With great power, there must also come great responsibility." Later retellings of the story, with flashbacks and reboots, gave the world a more famous line.
It is the first live-action Spider-Man film in which the main villain ends the film in prison rather than dead or on the run.
According to costume designer Kym Barrett, the Spider-Man costume was specifically designed to resemble an acrobat's outfit: "We wanted a design that would make the body longer and more agile, that of an incredibly nimble person; the legs of the spider symbol on the chest were used to emphasize this."
This retelling includes several comic-book elements missing from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. For example, Peter Parker uses his web-shooters and quips against his opponents far more than in the previous films.
When Andrew Garfield was first cast, he said: "I've been waiting for this phone call for 24 years... For someone to call me up and say, 'Hey, we want you to pretend to be a character that you've always wanted to be your whole life, and we're going to do it with great cameras and great effects and you're going to feel like you're swinging through New York City. Do you want to do it?' 'Let me check with my seven-year-old self and see what he thinks!' Deep down, like every young kid who feels stronger on the inside than he looks on the outside, like every scrawny kid who wants his muscles to match his sense of injustice, God, these are absolutely the stuff that dreams are made of. I've been preparing for this since I was four years old, since Halloween, when I first put on my Spider-Man costume."
Irrfan Khan said he was initially not interested in the project, but that his sons were excited about it and insisted he take the role.
(Around 28 minutes) When Peter searches the internet for his father Richard Parker's name, one of the options presented is "richard parker life of pi," because the same name is also given to a character in a novel adapted into the film Life of Pi (2012) at roughly the same time as this film. Irrfan Khan appears in both films and speaks the name Richard Parker in both.
The producers state that Steve Ditko's early work on 'Spider-Man,' Brian Michael Bendis's 'Ultimate Spider-Man' comic book and Batman Begins (2005) influenced the film.
A photograph of actor/comedian Donald Glover can be seen in Peter's bedroom. In 2010, when the film was first announced and the first casting was underway for the role of Spider-Man, Glover used Twitter to mount a joking campaign for an audition. Donald Glover is also part of the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
(Approximately 1 hour 25 minutes) The Daily Bugle newspaper office (and all related characters) does not appear in this film, a first for a Spider-Man feature film series. However, the newspaper's front page features a photograph offering a reward to anyone who proves the Lizard's existence after his attack on the bridge. The Daily Bugle logo can also be seen in the lower corner of a news program featuring the Lizard later in the film.
Marc Webb describes the film's theme as follows: "The missing piece inside all of us: Peter doesn't have his parents and he fills that void with Spider-Man. Curt isn't as strong as Spider-Man from within, but he wants to take his arm back and fill that void, and he actually turns into a big bully."
It was revealed that the man interrogating Dr. Connors in the mid-credits scene is Gustav Fiers, also known as The Gentleman, in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).
The film borrows several story elements significantly from the first seven issues of the Ultimate Spider-Man series. A few examples are that Spider-Man's mutation is not only tied to OsCorp as in the comics, but also that Spider-Man fights the villain at his school after the villain discovers his secret identity.
At one point in the film, Peter wears a "Ramones" T-shirt. The Ramones recorded a notable cover of The Theme From Spider-Man (1967).
All four Spider-Man films were shot on the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood. Ironically, some parts of the backlot, itself a symbol of the series, burned down on June 1, 2008, meaning the first three used the old backlot while this reboot used the new one.
This is the first "Spider-Man" film that does not feature Spider-Man's enduring love Mary Jane Watson (in Sam Raimi's three films played by Kirsten Dunst). Instead, Peter Parker's original girlfriend Gwen Stacy appears (she was played by Bryce Dallas Howard in Spider-Man 3 (2007)).
Emma Stone was initially considered for 21 Jump Street (2012) but dropped out of school to work on this film instead. Her role was given to Brie Larson.
Initially, the film was supposed to have two more villains alongside the Lizard: Proto-Goblin and Big Wheel (both old comic book villains). However, both were cut from the story (Big Wheel was only an idea before being cut) because the film would have been too long, with too much origin and too many fight scenes. (Also, there were too many similar "Goblin" characters in these film series.) Irrfan Khan plays Dr. Rajit Ratha, the character who would have become Proto-Goblin.
This is the first film in which Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans) transforms into the Lizard. Although Curt Connors appeared in Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), played by Dylan Baker, the character never became the Lizard despite some strong hints, and was prepared to become the Lizard in some script drafts that never got the green light. (This was later reconciled as learned about doppelgängers in the multiverse in the Doctor Strange multiverse craze; Tobey Maguire's stern Connors is different from Andrew Garfield's, just as Peter's father's past is not expressed in Tobey Maguire's version because that version never worked at Oscorp and never secretly developed the decay rate algorithm.)
Denis Leary's role as Captain Stacy in the film is based on the "Ultimate Spider-Man" comic book version, in which Captain Stacy is portrayed as a younger character, compared to the mainstream Spider-Man comics and the Spider-Man 3 (2007) version (played by James Cromwell), where he is a much older character.
Emma Stone normally wears her hair red, but appears with her natural blonde color as Gwen Stacy. Bryce Dallas Howard, the lead actress of The Help (2011) who played the same role in Spider-Man 3 (2007), is a natural redhead who had to dye her hair blonde. Alternatively, the typically blonde Kirsten Dunst appeared as the redheaded Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007).
Taylor Lautner, Josh Hutcherson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Logan Lerman, Robert Pattinson, Jamie Bell, Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Angarano, Michael Cera, Alden Ehrenreich, Zac Efron, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Xavier Samuel, Jim Sturgess, Drake Bell, Liam Aiken, Joe Jonas and Anton Yelchin were considered to play Spider-Man. Bell voiced Spider-Man in Ultimate Spider-Man (2012).
For many years, the film was criticized for being too "gritty" and "dark" in the same vein as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. Andrew Garfield argued: "We weren't bold, we were grounded. If we try to do Batman, we'll fail. The new Batman is a thing unto itself, and also in terms of style, Spider-Man doesn't resemble that character at all. Spider-Man is witty, Spider-Man is a kid, Spider-Man wants to have fun, he's a teenager and he needs to experience his first love and stir things up."
Andrew Garfield mentioned during his appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)" in 2012 that his costume was uncomfortable. "It's made of something that's designed to make you irritated," he said. "I don't know what the exact name is, but that's the description on the [label]."
In a 2016 interview with Howard Stern, Sally Field (Aunt May) was asked whether she liked this film, and her answer was: "Not particularly. It's not my kind of film. But my friend the producer was Laura Ziskin, and we knew this would be her last film, and she was my first producing partner and a wonderful person." Field and Ziskin had previously worked together on Murphy's Romance (1985), and Ziskin died of breast cancer a month after production on this film was completed. When Stern asked Field how much effort she put into preparing for the role of Aunt May, she said: "Not very much... It's really hard to find a three-dimensional character in it, and you work as hard as you can, but you can't put ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag."
During filming, the arm Rhys Ifans wore so that his right arm could be removed in post-production was nicknamed "Kermit" by the crew because the arm was the same green color as Kermit the Frog of the Muppets comedy troupe. The arm can be seen in deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes features.
Because Marc Webb wanted to make the film's world more realistic, he knew fans would be upset if the Lizard lost his snout, but he felt that if the Lizard could speak with intellectual ability and communication skill, it would make sense for him to be able to speak biologically and to debate whether this was a snout, that he then could not have any expression or form any sentence, and that it was important that you would not see Rhys Ifans's performance. It would make the audience sympathize.
(At about 1 hour 35 minutes) The man wearing headphones in the library is unaware of what is happening behind him.
The first film to use RED's Epic series digital cameras. Initially The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) was to be the first feature film to use this feature, but a delay at the start of production gave this film the distinction. However, when filming began in December 2010, the camera model was still at the prototype stage, so an engineer from RED had to be on hand throughout filming for emergency technical help and support.
When Andrew Garfield was unavailable to do ADR work, Scott Menville was brought in to voice Spider-Man's groans and moans.
The original title of Spider-Man 2 (2004) was "The Amazing Spider-Man."
(At about 1 hour 35 minutes) One of the books knocked off the shelf during the library fight is Left Behind: The Eighth Chapter: The Mark, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins; it is a story about the Antichrist trying to remake the world in his own image, similar to the Lizard's plan.
Denis Leary's first live-action theatrical film appearance since Dawg (2002) and The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002). Over the intervening 10 years he appeared only on television and in animated films.
John Slattery, Sam Elliott and R. Lee Ermey were said to be set to play the role of J. Jonah Jameson. However, this character, a legendary part of the Spider-Man mythos, does not appear in this film. Ermey had been James Cameron's choice to play Jameson in the Spider-Man film canceled in the early 1990s.
Michael Fassbender was initially considered for the role of Dr. Curt Connors; he ultimately went on to play Magneto in X-Men: First Class (2011). It was said that Christoph Waltz, the star of Inglourious Basterds (2009), would later be added to the role.
The hallway fight was done entirely with CGI.
Joe Jonas revealed that he auditioned for Spider-Man and lost the role to Andrew Garfield, saying: "In that moment you either crash and burn or you get defeated. But you realize that this person is amazing. I remember years ago I was ready for Spider-Man and I was very, very excited, and that year Andrew Garfield got the role. Obviously he was the right person. But I remember at the time that this was a big thing, going back for callbacks, and the director was a music video director, so I was like, 'I've got something here.' But you know what? I love the process of auditioning, putting yourself out there and proving yourself."
(At about the 28th minute) Peter sitting on the roof of his porch examining his father's notes was a nod to his spider instinct; spiders tend to prefer heights.
This means Martin Sheen and Cliff Robertson shared the screen for the second time: Robertson played Uncle Ben Parker in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002) films. They had previously played John F. Kennedy in Kennedy (1983) and PT 109 (1963), respectively.
Teresa Palmer was considered for the role of Gwen Stacy. She would later play the love interest of Andrew Garfield's character in Hacksaw Ridge (2016).
Irrfan Khan took the role of Dr. Ratha based on his performance in the series In Treatment (2008).
The opening scene of young Peter Parker playing hide-and-seek with his father was a metaphor for Peter searching for his father, and later in the film this becomes the film's subject.
According to director Marc Webb, during the sewer attack Spider-Man was supposed to retaliate, and he was supposed to have a one-liner saying to the Lizard, "You know, you kind of look like Goomba," but it was cut for various reasons.
Andrew Garfield was already 26 years old when he auditioned for Spider-Man, and he was therefore uncomfortable playing a high schooler. But he remembered some useful advice his acting coach Greta Seacat gave him: "You have to act like you're making a short film with all your high school friends for this screen test. That got me to fucking keep the channel open. Be free. It doesn't matter. Act like it doesn't matter at all. That's when whatever talent you have can be there. You're a kid again. You're emotionally available, you're not tight, and you're trying to do everything right."
In Marvel Comics canon, this film and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) are officially classified as taking place on Earth-120703. The number is taken from this film's release date, July 3, 2012.
This version of Spider-Man was born in 1996, the same year the MCU version played by Spider-Man actor Tom Holland was born.
It was announced in early July 2010 that Andrew Garfield would take the lead role.
The close-up in which the Lizard's claws pierce Spider-Man's chest and extend through it was called by Marc Webb his "Saving Private Ryan" moment, referring to how the knife comes toward the soldier's chest in Saving Private Ryan (1998) to help create an intense moment.
Andrew Garfield was paid $500,000, one-eighth of the $4 million Tobey Maguire received for Spider-Man (2002).
Connors's son Billy, played by Miles Elliot, appears only in a deleted scene.
Emma Stone reflected on this film in 2025: "I really loved doing Spider-Man. I loved everyone I worked with. I met Andrew there (she and Andrew Garfield were together for four years after working on the film). I met Sally Field, and [director] Marc Webb was wonderful. It was a really special period in my life. The recurring theme is less the film itself than the people I remember for a long time, and so I just have… the fondest memories. The experience." However, she found the press tours exhausting: "I really don't know how people do it. I remember being in maybe nine countries in two weeks, and you're working in a state of jet lag you've never known before, and I felt really psychotic the whole time."
James Cameron, David Fincher, Wes Anderson and Kathryn Bigelow were considered to direct the film. Cameron and Fincher also were considered to direct Spider-Man (2002).
Costume designer Kym Barrett built the Spider-Man suit over Andrew Garfield's physique to create an "aerodynamic, kind of sport-like Spider-Man."
Emma Stone (Gwen Stacy) and Sally Field (Aunt May) share a birthday on November 6, 40 years apart.
The first words spoken in the film are young Peter Parker counting down while playing hide-and-seek: "Four… three… two… one!" This seems to wink at the audience that the film, the fourth SPIDER-MAN film in a decade, is taking them back to the beginning of Spider-Man's story.
Ashley Greene, Mia Wasikowska, Scout Taylor-Compton, Teresa Palmer, Amber Heard, Dianna Agron, Brooklyn Decker, Imogen Poots, Lindsay Lohan, Skyler Shaye, Emma Roberts, Melise Jow, Emily Browning, Lily Collins, Nicole Gale Anderson, Anna Kendrick, Ophelia Lovibond, Nathalia Ramos, Sara Paxton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Georgina Haig, Hilary Duff and Dominique McElligott were considered for the role of Gwen Stacy but were beaten out by Emma Stone. It is interesting to note that Winstead played Gwen Grayson (named after Gwen Stacy) in the superhero spoof Sky High (2005).
Julianne Nicholson had taken the role of Peter's mother before being replaced by Embeth Davidtz.
Martin Sheen's son Charlie Sheen was linked to rumors that he would play Spider-Man in a proposed film project in the 1990s.
It was shot under the working title "Fiona's Tale."
There is a poster for Rear Window (1954) in Peter's room. Just like the protagonist of that film, Peter follows people and even photographs them.
There was almost a scene in which Peter Parker finds Uncle Ben's killer and punches the man repeatedly, but the scene was cancelled by Ilram Choi on the grounds that it was too brutal.
Actress Elena Satine campaigned for the role of Mary Jane Watson before the producers chose Gwen Stacy instead of Mary Jane.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone were nominated for the Oscar for Best Lead Performance in 2016; Garfield for Hacksaw Ridge (2016) and Stone for La La Land (2016). Stone won.
Cruzado de la Noche is the mask he looked at while designing his own mask. In English, this translates as "Night Crusader."
Stan Lee spoke about Andrew Garfield's casting as Spider-Man: "Andrew is as perfect as Tobey Maguire was. He looks the part. He acts the part."
Martin Sheen's second comic book film after Spawn (1997).
With this film, the Spider-Man series's global box office revenue surpassed $3 billion.
Andrew Garfield, born in 1983, is the second Millennial to play Spider-Man. The first was Drake Bell (born in 1986), who voiced Spider-Man in Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), which premiered three months before this film was released.
Emma Stone was considered to play Hope van Dyne in Ant-Man (2015).
It is the second comic book film scored by James Horner after The Rocketeer (1991).
In 2010, shortly after the film was announced, many fans on the website's forums discussed their dream cast and ideas such as the film being titled "Peter Parker: Spider-Man," featuring Mysterio and introducing Black Cat as a villain, and among the largest fan bases at the time were Logan Lerman for the role of Spider-Man, Mary Elizabeth Winstead for Mary Jane Watson, Evan Rachel Wood for Gwen Stacy and R. Lee Ermey for J. Jonah Jamison.
The following characters appeared in the film and were adapted from the comics: * Peter Benjamin Parker/Spider-Man, referred to on screen as Peter Parker or Spider-Man. He first appeared in the comic book story titled "Spider-Man!" From Amazing Fantasy #15 (June 1962), written by editor/writer Stan Lee and writer/artist Steve Ditko. * Gwendolyne Maxine "Gwen" Stacy, referred to on screen as Gwen Stacy. She first appeared in the comic book story titled "If This Be My Destiny…!" From The Amazing Spider-Man #31 (December 1965) by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. * Dr. Curtis "Curt" Connors/The Lizard, referred to on screen as Curt Connors. He first appeared in the comic book story titled "Face-to-Face with the Lizard!" From The Amazing Spider-Man #6 (November 1963), written by writer Stan Lee and writer/artist Steve Ditko. * NYPD Captain George Stacy, referred to on screen as George Stacy or Captain Stacy. He first appeared in the comic book story titled "Disaster!" From The Amazing Spider-Man #56 (January 1968), written by writer Stan Lee and artists John Romita Sr. and Don Heck. * Peter's Uncle Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Parker, referred to on screen as Uncle Ben or Ben Parker. He first appeared in the comic book story titled "Spider-Man!" From Amazing Fantasy #15 (June 1962), written by editor/writer Stan Lee and writer/artist Steve Ditko. * Peter's Aunt Maybelle "May" Parker, referred to on screen as Aunt May or May Parker. She first appeared in the comic book story titled "Spider-Man!" From Amazing Fantasy #15 (June 1962), written by editor/writer Stan Lee and writer/artist Steve Ditko. * Richard Parker first appeared in a flashback in the comic book story titled "Peter Parker's Parents!" From The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5 by editor/writer Stan Lee and writer/artist Larry Lieber. * Mary Parker first appeared in a flashback in the comic book story titled "Peter Parker's Parents!" From The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5 by editor/writer Stan Lee and writer/artist Larry Lieber. * Eugene "Flash" Thompson, referred to on screen as Flash Thompson. He first appeared in the comic book story titled "Spider-Man!" From Amazing Fantasy #15 (June 1962), written by editor/writer Stan Lee and writer/artist Steve Ditko. * Helen Stacy, George Stacy's wife and Gwen Stacy's mother. She first appeared in the comic book story "Proto-Goblin" in Spider-Man #-1 (July 1997), written by writer Howard Mackie and artist Dan Fraga. * The Car Thief who killed Uncle Ben (referred to in the comics as the Burglar), who first appeared in the comic book story titled "Spider-Man!" From Amazing Fantasy #15 (June 1962), written by editor/writer Stan Lee and writer/artist Steve Ditko. All other characters not listed were created solely for the film. The list above includes only the creators of the character's first appearance. As with all comic book characters, Spider-Man and the supporting cast have been reinvented many times and given different contributions by different writers. These include different iterations in different settings that add different concepts to the characters' overall mythology.
(About 23 minutes in) the woman whose black shirt is accidentally torn by Peter on the subway, revealing her pink bra.
In 2024, all live-action Spider-Man films were re-released in Spain by Sony in a cycle dedicated to Stan Lee: * Spider-Man (2002): August 2. * Spider-Man 2 (2004): August 9. * Spider-Man 3 (2007): August 16. * The Amazing Spider-Man (2012): September 6. * The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014): September 13. * Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017): September 27. * Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019): October 11. * Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021): October 18.
The first Spider-Man film not released in the same year as a Harry Potter film. Spider-Man (2002) came out the same year as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004) the same year as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), and Spider-Man 3 (2007) the same year as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).
In an interview with Complex, Nicolas Cage named Andrew Garfield as his favorite Spider-Man and, in his view, the best actor to represent the character. Cage played Spider-Man Noir in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Noir (2026).
It appears in "The A to Z of Superhero Movies: From Abar to ZsaZsa via the MCU" by Rob Hill.
Campbell Scott (Richard Parker) and Jill Flint (Oscorp receptionist) had major recurring roles on Royal Pains.
Among the cast are 2 Oscar winners: Sally Field and Emma Stone, and one Oscar nominee: Andrew Garfield.
It surpassed Catch Me If You Can (2002) as Martin Sheen's highest-grossing film.
It surpassed Forrest Gump (1994) as Sally Field's highest-grossing film worldwide. Forrest Gump remains the highest-grossing domestically.
Campbell Scott plays Martin Sheen's brother in this film. Sheen had previously appeared alongside Scott's mother Colleen Dewhurst in The Dead Zone (1983) and his father George C. Scott in Firestarter (1984). Dewhurst appeared in Anne of Green Gables (1985), while Sheen appeared in a later version, Anne of Green Gables (2016). Sheen's character was the brother of the character Dewhurst had played.
Marvel published a tie-in comic written by Tom Cohen and drawn by Neil Edwards. It was followed in 2014 by a direct adaptation of the film, written by Cohen and drawn by Wellinton Alves.
The film made the shortlist for the Best Visual Effects Oscar but was not nominated.
Gwen Stacy's (Emma Stone) apartment number is 2016. That is the year Tom Holland's Spider-Man replaced Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War (2016).
Two actors who had previously worked with Andrew Garfield — Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network (2010) and Jamie Foxx in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) — would later reunite in Rio (2011) and Rio 2 (2014); Eisenberg played Blu and Foxx played Nico.
Coinciding with the film's release, Marvel published the second Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus in 2012.
Released five years after Spider-Man 3 (2007), this film marks the longest gap between two Spider-Man films.
"Peter Parker" and "Curt Connors" were two of the many alliterative names Stan Lee devised for his characters. Lee admitted that doing so helped him remember the names.
The animated series Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) was produced to coincide with this film's release. It premiered three months before the film came out.