![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() None of this is the fault of any of the films’ stars, nor even “plucked from indie success” director Marc Webb ( 500 Days of Summer and eventually Gifted). (Photo by Columbia Pictures/Getty Images) Getty Images Spiderman and Kirsten Dunst in a scene from the film 'Spiderman', 2002. The film was, save for nonsense involving Peter’s parents, a pretty conventional stand-alone Peter Parker passion play, but it was sold as Sony’s attempt at an MCU-like universe and thus was perceived as expected to pull Dark Knight ($533 million/$1.004 billion) grosses. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 went further in terms of crafting a dense MCU-like mythology, turning Peter Parker into “the special” and selling the sequel as a backdoor pilot for an eventual “Spider-Man versus Sinister Six” movie. However, while the reviews were halfway decent and the film opened with $137 million over its Tues-Sun Independence Day weekend, it did not inspire a deluge of excitement for whatever came next. The Amazing Spider-Man earned $262 million domestic (well below the $336-$402 million likes of Raimi’s Spider-Man movies) and $760 million worldwide (below the $784-$890 million grossing prior trilogy) on a budget pretty much equal to Spider-Man 2. it featured a quippy romance between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Never mind that Raimi’s trilogy was a romantic melodrama between Toby Macguire and Kirsten Dunst, this new film was totally different because. And there was deep cynicism in how Sony sold, and the media accepted, the film’s many similarities to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies (an emphasis on young love, the notion of the villain being a friend and mentor to Peter, a climactic “regular citizens save the day” scene, etc.) as new and different from what had come before. ![]() The Amazing Spider-Man morphed into a $235 million, 140-minute origin story reboot, modeled less on Twilight and more on Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. Even if there was initial value in the idea of making a much cheaper and more teen romance-skewing drama (it was pitched at the time as “ Twilight with webs”), that is not what happened. ![]()
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