14 DAY TRIAL // Taking over from Sam Raimi and his insanely successful “Spider-Man” trilogy can be quite a challenge, but director Marc Webb is willing to do it. The first teaser trailer for his reboot, “The Amazing Spider-Man,” is officially out.
As we also noted the other day, the trailer leaked shortly before its official release, but the quality of it was so poor that one could hardly make out what was happening in it.
The high quality, official version is now out – and fans who waited for it to be released should be happy to know they made a good choice to do so.
The trailer focuses mostly on Peter Parker’s (Andrew Garfield) transformation from the lanky dork no one wants to hang out into the superhero that can jump from building to building, and sling from them on spider webs, hiding underneath the mask of the same lanky dork, minus the glasses.
It also offers a glimpse of Parker’s love interest in the original comics, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), and the villain of the film before he becomes that (Rhys Ifans).
At the same time, the trailer also hints at a darker family secret, one that forces Peter’s parents to abandon him when he’s just a child into the care of his aunt and uncle.
In doing so, “The Amazing Spider-Man” is trying to give Spider-Man a back history as rich, dark and meaningful as Batman got in Chris Nolan’s “Batman” films, movie pundits are saying online.
Even so, reaction to the trailer will most likely disappoint Sony, in that it’s far from what studio bosses may have expected.
Because it focuses so much on how Parker got bit by a Spider-Man and the period in which he adjust to his superhero condition, many see this upcoming film as a rehash of Raimi’s first “Spider-Man” film: in other words, another useless Hollywood remake.
In a recent interview, director Webb stressed that fans should expect to see some mythology from the previous trilogy in the reboot, as IndieWire reports.
“I feel we have certain obligations to the iconography of Spider-Man, which is based mostly in the comics. The other thing is Spider-Man has a lot of different incarnations in the comics,” Webb said.
“While there are certain mainstays – a kid who gets bitten by a spider, he’s an outsider, the death of his Uncle Ben helps endow [him] with the mentality of a hero – those things remain the same but there’s also room for interpretation. He’s been around since the 1960s,” he added.
“The wealth of material here – whether it’s story or character – is really profound but I also feel it’s my responsibility to reinvent it in some ways,” Webb further said.
“The Amazing Spider-Man” is out in theaters in April 2012. Further details on it should emerge at Comic-Con. In the meantime, check out the official trailer below.
