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Spider-Man is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Sam Raimi released in USA on 3 may 2002 with Tobey Maguire

Spider-Man (2002)

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Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the film stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, a high school student living in New York, who turns to crimefighting after developing spider-like super powers. Spider-Man also stars Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn (a.k.a. the Green Goblin), Kirsten Dunst as Peter's love interest Mary Jane Watson, and James Franco as his best friend Harry Osborn.

After being stuck in development hell for nearly 25 years, the film was licensed for a worldwide release by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1999 after it acquired options from MGM on all previous scripts developed by Cannon Films, Carolco and New Cannon. Exercising its option on just two elements from this multi-script acquisition (a screenplay credited to James Cameron, Ted Newsom, John Brancato, Barney Cohen and "Joseph Goldman" (the pen name of Menahem Golan) and a later treatment credited solely to Cameron), Sony hired David Koepp to create a working screenplay from this "Cameron material". Directors Roland Emmerich, Ang Lee, Chris Columbus, Jan de Bont, M. Night Shyamalan, Tony Scott and David Fincher were considered to direct the project before Raimi was hired as director in 2000. The Koepp script was rewritten by Scott Rosenberg during preproduction and received a dialogue polish from Alvin Sargent during production.

Filming of Spider-Man took place in Los Angeles, and New York City from January 8 to June 30, 2001. Spider-Man premiered in the Philippines on April 30, 2002, and had its general release in the United States on May 3, 2002. It became a critical and financial success. For its time, it was the only film to reach $100 million in its first weekend, had the largest opening weekend gross of all time, and was the most successful film based on a comic book. With $821.7 million worldwide, it was 2002's third-highest-grossing film and is the 46th-highest-grossing film of all time (7th at the time of release).

The film was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards ceremony for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Mixing. Due to the success of the film, Columbia Pictures and Marvel created two sequels, Spider-Man 2 in June 30, 2004, and Spider-Man 3 in May 4, 2007. A third sequel entered development in 2008 and was originally planned for a May 6, 2011 release date, but a disagreement between Raimi and Sony resulted in Raimi leaving the project and Sony canceling Spider-Man 4. Sony instead decided to reboot the series with The Amazing Spider-Man which was released on July 3, 2012. A sequel titled, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, was released in May 2, 2014. After the sequels and spin-offs to The Amazing Spider-Man were canceled, a new trilogy will take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Spider-Man set to make his debut in Captain America: Civil War, which would be released on May 6, 2016, followed by a solo film set to be released on July 28, 2017.

Synopsis

High-school senior Peter Parker visits a genetics laboratory with his friend Harry Osborn and love interest, Mary Jane Watson for a school field trip. There, Peter is bitten on the hand by a genetically engineered "super spider". Shortly after arriving home to his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, he goes unconscious. Meanwhile, Harry's father, scientist Norman Osborn, owner of Oscorp, is attempting to preserve his company's critically important military contract. He experiments on himself with a new but unstable performance-enhancing chemical vapor that increases his speed, strength, and stamina. However, it also drives him insane and he kills his assistant, Mendel Stromm. The next morning, Peter finds that his previously impaired vision has improved and his body has metamorphosized into a more muscular physique. At school, he finds that his body can produce webs and his quickened reflexes let him avoid injury during a confrontation with bully Flash Thompson. Peter discovers he has developed superhuman speed, strength, the ability to stick to surfaces, and a heightened ability to sense danger.

Actors

Tobey Maguire

(Spider-Man / Peter Parker)
Willem Dafoe

(Green Goblin / Norman Osborn)
Kirsten Dunst

(Mary Jane Watson)
James Franco

(Harry Osborn)
Cliff Robertson

(Ben Parker)
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Marvel Comics films

Captain America (1944) The Amazing Spider-Man (1978) Spider-Man (1978) Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1981) Howard the Duck (1986) The Punisher (1989) Captain America (1990) The Fantastic Four (1994) Men in Black (1997) Blade (1998) X-Men (2000) Men in Black II (2002) Spider-Man (2002) Blade II (2002) Hulk (2003) X2 (2003) Daredevil (2003) Spider-Man 2 (2004) The Punisher (2004) Blade: Trinity (2004) Elektra (2005) Man-Thing (2005) Fantastic Four (2005) Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (2006) Ultimate Avengers 2 (2006) X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (2006) Doctor Strange (2007) Ghost Rider (2007) The Invincible Iron Man (2007) Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) Spider-Man 3 (2007) The Incredible Hulk (2008) Iron Man (2008) Punisher: War Zone (2008) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Hulk vs. Wolverine (2009) Kick-Ass (2010) Planet Hulk (2010) Iron Man 2 (2010) X-Men: First Class (2011) Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant (2011) Thor (2011) Thor: Tales of Asgard (2011) Men in Black 3 (2012) The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) The Avengers (2012) Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 (2012) Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013) Thor: The Dark World (2013) The Wolverine (2013) Iron Man 3 (2013) Kick-Ass 2 (2013) Iron Man: Rise of Technovore (2013) Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Big Hero 6 (2014) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014) Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) Fantastic Four (2015) Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Ant-Man (2015) Deadpool (2016) Doctor Strange (2016) Captain America: Civil War (2016) X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Logan (2017) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Deadpool 2 (2018) Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) Venom (2018) Black Panther (2018) Dark Phoenix (2019) Men in Black: International (2019) Avengers: Endgame (2019) Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) Captain Marvel (2019) The New Mutants (2020) The King's Man (2021) Black Widow (2021) Eternals (2021) Morbius (2022)

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