The Amazing Spider-Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[caroline]

Denis Leary's first live action theatrical film appearance since Bad Boy (2002) and The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002). In the intervening 10 years he had only been in television and cartoons.

[ivan]

Andrew Garfield was announced for the lead role in early July 2010.

[frances]

One of Embeth Davidtz' early roles was in Army of Darkness (1992), a movie made by the same crew as the original Spider-Man trilogy.

[caroline]

Michael Fassbender was originally considered for the role of Dr Curt Connors; he eventually went on to play Magneto in X-Men: First Class (2011). His Inglourious Basterds (2009) co-star Christoph Waltz was later rumored to be attached to the part.

[norma]

Released on the tenth anniversary of The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002).

[sandra]

Ben Parker's line "With great power comes great responsibility", prominent in the Sam Raimi movies, is not once uttered in this film. The voice-mail left by Ben alludes to this, but never directly quotes it. This is actually more in keeping with Amazing Fantasy #15, the first telling of the story, where it was merely a text box that said "With great power, there must also come great responsibility." Subsequent retellings of the story in flashback and reboot gave the world the more famous line.

[ken]

According to costume designer Kym Barrett, the Spider-Man costume was specially designed to resemble an acrobat costume: "We wanted a design that would make the body longer and more lithe, someone incredibly agile; the legs of the spider-symbol on the chest were used to emphasize that."

[ava]

Emma Stone normally wears her hair red, but as Gwen Stacy she appears in her natural blonde. Her The Help (2011) co-star Bryce Dallas Howard, who played the same role in Spider-Man 3 (2007), is a natural redhead who had to dye her hair blonde.

[jeffrey]

Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone got to know each other as co-actors in a coffee shop. Which would eventually lead them to be dating in real life.

[charlie]

Andrew Garfield was almost 30 when he played this role. Peter Parker in this movie is supposed to be about 17.

[steve]

It was a creative decision by the filmmakers to have most of the stunts performed practically on rigs by actors/stuntmen, rather than extensively use CGI animation. Marc Webb explained they wanted to make the film more physical and thus more realistic. While filming in New York the crew built a whole rig hundreds of feet long over Riverside Drive in Harlem, and Andy Armstrong built a car rig with a series of wires to help with VFX which required an incredible wealth of acrobatics

[victoria]

The ISBN, 0-345-43057-3, on the back cover of Curt Connors' book, 'Splice of Life: Breakthroughs in Cross-Species Genetics', that Peter is reading while he is sitting on the porch roof, is, in real life, the ISBN for 'A Certain Justice: Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries' by PD James.

[steve]

This retelling includes several comic book elements which were missing from the Sam Raimi films of Spider-Man. One is the method of web slinging: Parker builds devices for shooting webs as in the comic books, whereas in Raimi's version the webs were part of him. Spider-Man also does much more taunting and smack-talk with his opponents than in previous films. In the Marvel Universe while Deadpool is known as the "Merc with the Mouth", to Spider-Man's villains he held the same reputation. Most of Spider-Man's villains shared the same hatred of his talking so much junk.