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Release date | 2002-2007 |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Total (3 films): $589 million |
| Box office | Total (3 films): $2,513.3 million |
Spider-Man is a media franchise of American superhero films directed by Sam Raimi and Erik Franklin based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Produced by Columbia Pictures and High Mountain Studios in association with Marvel Enterprises and Laura Ziskin Productions, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, the films feature Tobey Maguire, Bryn Clayton Jones, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, Leona Britt, James Franco, Brandon Melo, Cliff Robertson, Rosemary Harris, Alice Bridgforth, Alfred Molina, Donna Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell, J. K. Simmons and Danny Malo.
Set in New York City, New York, United States, the films follow Peter Parker as he undergoes his transition from a high school teenager who gains superhuman abilities after being bitten by a genetically engineered spider to a superhero who uses them to fight crime in New York under the masked persona "Spider-Man" while dealing with Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, New Goblin, Sandman, Venom, Vulture and Black Cat in the process.
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[edit]On a high school field trip in the year 2002, Peter Parker, an 18-year-old shy, timid and bespectacled outsider at Midtown High School, visits a Columbia University genetics laboratory with Harry Osborn, his best friend, and Mary Jane Watson, his next-door neighbor and childhood crush. While taking a picture of Mary Jane for the school newspaper, Peter is bitten by one of 15 genetically modified super-spiders that drops on him. Upon returning home, Peter falls ill and passes out in his room. Meanwhile, Norman, Harry's father who is a scientist and the founder and CEO of Oscorp, hears Dr. Mendel Stromm, a head scientist employed by Oscorp to develop a human performance-enhancing chemical though he expresses doubts in their effectiveness, reveal to military officials overseeing the project for a super-soldier serum that some of their test mice have demonstrated their violent insanity. Having been threatened with a tight deadline, Norman attempts to secure a military contract for Oscorp by deciding to experiment on himself with the serum and is being driven insane by the chemical in the process, causing him to kill Stromm.
The next day, Peter finds that he's no longer near-sighted and that his body is now at peak physical condition. He discovers that he has developed spider-like abilities including enhanced strength, senses, agility, speed, organic webbing in his wrists and the ability to cling to walls which allow him to avoid injury during a confrontation with Flash Thompson, Mary Jane's boyfriend who is his rival and bully that he accidentally humiliates, which he wins by knocking Flash out with one punch though he later apologizes to Mary Jane for the confrontation while she confides in him about wanting to escape her abusive, alcoholic father and pursue an acting career. Considering buying a car to impress Mary Jane after noticing Flash's new car, Peter brushes off the advice of Ben, his uncle who was an chief electrician for 35 years before being laid off, that "with great power comes great responsibility" and enters into an underground wrestling tournament to raise the money. He wins his first match but is swindled out of his earnings by the promoter. When a thief suddenly robs the promoter's office, Peter, wanting to get even, retaliates against the promoter for cheating him by allowing the thief to escape despite having the chance to stop him. Soon after, Peter discovers that Ben was carjacked and killed with a pistol. Enraged, he pursues and confronts the carjacker, only to discover that it was the thief he let escape. The thief attempts to shoot Peter and flee, but Peter disarms him and the thief eventually trips and falls out a window to his death. Meanwhile, an alternate, crazed Norman sabotages a product test run by Quest Aerospace, Oscorp's rival, and kills several scientists and the military officials.
Upon graduating, Peter, finally taking Ben's words to heart out of guilt, begins to use his newfound abilities to fight crime in New York City, donning a costume and adopting the alias "Spider-Man." However, this doesn't impress J. Jonah Jameson, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle newspaper who retains an extreme personal disliking of the emerging vigilante whom he considers as a criminal and takes significant pride in carrying out an unrelenting smear campaign against him and driving a rift in the public opinion on his heroics by hiring Peter as a freelance photographer as Peter can provide high-quality images of Spider-Man, leading to the Bugle's sales getting higher thanks to Spider-Man. Having rejected an proposal and broken off with Flash during graduation, Mary Jane takes work as a waitress while looking for acting gigs and begins to form a closer friendship with Peter as she starts dating Harry who initially starts a relationship with her without telling him. When Oscorp's board of directors decides to oust Norman and sell the company as Quest has expanded to assume control of Oscorp, Norman assassinates them while wearing a disguise as a homicidal terrorist during the Unity Day festival in Times Square sponsored by Oscorp, endangering Harry and Mary Jane. Having been assigned by Jameson to take pictures at the festival that Harry and Mary Jane attend as an important date with the board of directors, Peter saves several civilians and fends off Norman before rescuing Mary Jane from falling off a balcony. Afterwards, Jameson bestows the mysterious masked killer with the name "the Green Goblin."
Having taken notes of Spider-Man, the Goblin reveals his identity and their actions to Norman who becomes horrified of what he has done under the control of his alter-ego, but the Goblin is still able to manipulate and brainwash him into continuing to do his bidding. Norman leads his next attack at Jameson who willingly protects Peter when the Goblin demands to know about the identity of Spider-Man's photographer. When Peter arrives at the Bugle, he is kidnapped by Norman who offers him a place at his side and belittles his choice to become a hero, warning him that the city will eventually turn against him. Peter rescues Mary Jane from a gang of thugs in an alley and receives and Mary Jane thanks him with a kiss without him revealing his identity. Norman sets up a trap, baiting Peter into a burning building and asking if he accepted his offer. However, Peter refuses to partner with Norman and an furious Norman fights Peter who flees away after being wounded. May, Peter's aunt who encourages her nephew with words of wisdom like Ben had before his death, invites Mary Jane, Harry and Norman over for Thanksgiving dinner, but Norman sees Peter's injury and, deducing his secret identity, suddenly leaves in a hurry. Harry pleads with Norman to stay with him and Mary Jane, but Norman uncharacteristically insults Mary Jane, ordering his son to dump her as soon as he's satisfied with her and storming off. Mary Jane overhears Norman and calls him a creep as an angry Harry, saddened by his father's lack of attention, defends him, saying that the "creep" was his father.
Although Norman doesn't want to hurt Peter, he injures May who is left to be hospitalized in an attempt to "attack his heart". Unfortunately, Peter is still unaware of the Goblin's identity but realizes that the Goblin is targeting on his loved ones. While visiting May at the hospital, Mary Jane, having grown distant from Harry due to his desire to please Norman at her expense, confesses to Peter about her infatuation with Spider-Man for rescuing her twice and asks him if Spider-Man had ever asked about her. As Peter indirectly reveals his feelings for her, Harry walks in to see Mary Jane holding Peter's hand and assumes that she has feelings for him. A distraught Harry subsequently breaks up with Mary Jane and unwittingly confesses to his father that Peter loves Mary Jane, unknowingly revealing Spider-Man's biggest weakness. That night, Norman captures Mary Jane and a Roosevelt Island Tramway car full of children and holds them hostage on top of the Queensboro Bridge. He forces Peter to choose whom to rescue and drops them both from the bridge. Peter manages to save them both and lowers them to a nearby barge to safety as civilians side with Peter to jeer Norman. An enraged Norman grabs Peter and throws him into an abandoned building where he brutally beats him.
Spider-Man 2
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[edit]Spider-Man 4: Fan Film
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[edit]Cast
[edit]The following is a list of cast members who have portrayed characters appearing in films.
This section includes characters who have appeared in noteworthy roles.
- An empty grey cell indicates the character was not in the film.
- A indicates an appearance through archival footage or audio.
- C indicates a cameo role.
| Characters | Spider-Man | Spider-Man 2 | Spider-Man 3 | Spider-Man 4: Fan Film |
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| 2002 | 2004 | 2007 | TBA | |
| Peter Parker Spider-Man |
Tobey Maguire | Bryn Clayton Jones | ||
| Introduced in Spider-Man | ||||
| Henry Balkan | Jack Betts | |||
| Bonesaw McGraw | Randy Savage | |||
| Betty Brant | Elizabeth Banks | TBA | ||
| Dennis Carradine | Michael Papajohn | Michael PapajohnC | ||
| Maximilian Fargas | Gerry Becker | |||
| Ted Hoffman | Ted Raimi | TBA | ||
| Bernard Houseman | John Paxton | TBA | ||
| J. Jonah Jameson | J. K. Simmons | Danny Malo | ||
| Harry Osborn New Goblin |
James Franco | Brandon Melo | ||
| Norman Osborn Green Goblin |
Willem Dafoe | |||
| Ben Parker | Cliff Robertson | TBA | ||
| May Parker | Rosemary Harris | Alice Bridgforth | ||
| Robbie Robertson | Bill Nunn | Tommy Driver | ||
| General Slocum | Stanley Anderson | |||
| Mendel Stromm | Ron Perkins | |||
| Eugene "Flash" Thompson | Joe Manganiello | Joe ManganielloC | ||
| Mary Jane Watson | Kirsten Dunst | Leona Britt | ||
Crew
[edit]| Crew | Film | ||||
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| Spider-Man | Spider-Man 2 | Spider-Man 3 | Spider-Man 4: Fan Film | ||
| Director | Sam Raimi | Erik Franklin | |||
| Producers | Laura Ziskin Ian Bryce |
Laura Ziskin Ian Bryce Grant Curtis |
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| Screenwriters | David Koepp | Screenplay by: Alvin Sargent Story by: Alfred Gough Miles Millar Michael Chabon |
Screenplay by: Sam Raimi Ivan Raimi Alvin Sargent Story by: Sam Raimi Ivan Raimi |
Screenplay by: Bryn Clayton Jones William McCarthy Story by: Bryn Clayton Jones | |
| Executive Producers | Avi Arad Stan Lee |
Stan Lee Kevin Feige Joseph M. Caracciolo |
Chad Eshelman Bryn Clayton Jones | ||
| Composer | Danny Elfman | Score by: Christopher Young Themes by: Danny Elfman |
Score by: William McCarthy Themes by: Danny Elfman | ||
| Cinematographer | Don Burgess | Bill Pope | Quinton Sidoti | ||
| Editors | Bob Murawski Arthur Coburn |
Bob Murawski | Bryn Clayton Jones | ||
| Production companies | Columbia Pictures Marvel Enterprises Laura Ziskin Productions |
High Mountain Studios | |||
| Distributing company | Sony Pictures Releasing | TBA | |||
Spider-Man Production
[edit]Development
[edit]In 1975, Marvel Comics made plans to bring its characters to the big screen. Following the critical and commercial success of Superman (1978) which was based on DC Comics' flagship character, Superman, in the early 1980s, Marvel went into negotiations with film producers to bring their flagship character, Spider-Man, into the big screen. Producer Roger Corman was the first to hold an option on the Spider-Man property and began to develop the film at Orion Pictures. Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee was brought on to write a screenplay which featured Cold War themes and Doctor Octopus as the primary antagonist. The project didn't come into fruition after budgetary disputes between Corman and Lee and the critical and commercial failure of Superman III (1983) made feature-film adaptations of comic book properties a low priority in Hollywood until the late 1990s due to its low box office performance.[1][2] In 1985, after a brief option on Spider-Man made by Corman was expired,[3] Marvel optioned the property to Cannon Films.
Spider-Man 2 Production
[edit]Spider-Man 3 Production
[edit]Spider-Man 4: Fan Film Production
[edit]Development
[edit]Sometime after the cancelation of Spider-Man 4 by Sony Pictures Entertainment in January 2010, it was announced that the development of an continuation of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy was underway by a small studio in Seattle, Washington, called High Mountain Studios,[4] and the film was funded by fans through a campaign on Kickstarter.[5]
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[edit]- ^ Sagers, Aaron (August 7, 2015). "'We Made a Good Little Film': Roger Corman's Oral History of His Fantastic Four". Syfy Wire. Archived from the original on February 6, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
- ^ Hiltzik, Michael A. (September 29, 1998). "Spidey's Movie Mess". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Kaye, Don. "A Tangled Web". MSN. Archived from the original on May 26, 2013. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
- ^ "SPIDER-MAN 4 (Fan Film) Announcement Teaser". YouTube. February 21, 2021. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
- ^ Paul, Joey (March 1, 2019). "Kickstarter Launched To Continue Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN Film Series with a Fan Film". GeekTyrant. Retrieved February 18, 2025.