The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (film)

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 * Spoiler Release Date   = May 2, 2014


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 * Aliases                = The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro (Brazil only)
 * Tagline                = His greatest battle begins.
 * Universe               = Earth-120703


 * Directors              = Marc Webb
 * Producers              =
 * ComicWriters           =
 * StoryWriters           = James Vanderbilt;
 * ScreenplayWriters      = Alex Kurtzman; Roberto Orci; Jeff Pinkner
 * Musicians              = Hans Zimmer
 * Cinematographers       =
 * Editors                =
 * Distributors           = Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Entertainment
 * Running Time           =
 * Rating                 = PG-13
 * Budget                 = $200 million
 * Release Date           = April 16, 2014
 * US Release Date        = May 2, 2014
 * IMDB ID                = 1872181


 * Previous Film          = The Amazing Spider-Man (July 3, 2012)
 * Next Film              =

Featured Characters: Supporting Characters: Villains: Other Characters: Locations: Items: Vehicles:
 * Appearances            =
 * {{Flash|Spider-Man (Peter Parker)}}
 * {{Death|Gwen Stacy}}
 * {{Flash|Richard Parker}} {{Death}}
 * {{a|May Parker}} {{Flash}}
 * {{a|Oscorp}}
 * {{1st|Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich)}}
 * {{1st|Electro (Max Dillon)}} {{ApDeath}}
 * {{1st|Green Goblin (Harry Osborn)}}
 * {{1st|Donald Menken}}
 * {{1stFull|Norman Osborn}} {{ApDeath}}
 * {{1st|Felicia Hardy}}
 * {{a|The Gentleman (Gustav Fiers)}} {{g|Identity revealed}}
 * {{1st|Alistair Smythe}}
 * {{Mentioned|Dr. Curt Connors}}
 * {{FlashOnly|Mary Parker}} {{Death}}
 * {{FlashOnly|Ben Parker}}
 * {{a|NYPD}}
 * {{Vision|Capt. George Stacy}} {{Flash}}
 * {{a|Howard Stacy}}
 * {{a|Helen Stacy}}
 * {{a|Philip Stacy}}
 * {{Mentioned|J.J. Jameson}}
 * {{1st|Dr. Ashley Kafka}} {{ApDeath}}
 * Kari {{1st}}
 * {{a|Earth-120703}}
 * {{a|New York City}}, {{a|New York}}
 * {{a|Manhattan}}
 * {{a|Times Square}} {{Destruction}}
 * {{a|Oscorp Tower}}
 * {{a|Queens}}
 * {{a|Forest Hills}}
 * {{a|Aunt May's House}}
 * {{a|Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane}}
 * The Vault {{Mentioned}}
 * {{a|Spider-Man's Web-Shooters}}
 * {{1st|Doctor Octopus' Tentacles}} {{Cameo}}
 * {{1st|Vulture's Wings}} {{Cameo}}
 * {{1st|Rhino's Armor}}
 * {{1st|Pumpkin Bombs}}
 * {{1st|Goblin Glider}} {{Destruction}}


 * Plot                   = I made a choice. This is my path.

-Spider-Man

In a flashback, Richard Parker records a video message in an attempt to explain himself before his disappearance. Along with his wife, Mary Parker, he boards a flight that is hijacked by a man sent to kill him. He thwarts the attempt on his life but the pilot loses control of the plane and it crashes, killing everyone on board.

In the present day, Spider-Man is in pursuit of a criminal named Alexsei Sytsevich carrying a truck full of dangerous yellow plutonium chemicals through the city, despite the fact that his graduation ceremony is right at that moment. Whilst talking to a worried Gwen Stacy on the phone, he sees a vision of her late father, Captain Stacy, and is reminded of the promise he made to stay away from Gwen in the previous film. During the chase, he saves the life of Max Dillon, a lonely, isolated Oscorp employee whom Spider-Man compliments as being his "eyes and ears out here". Spider-Man manages to stop Sytsevich, and leaves him in nothing but boxer shorts. Afterwards, Peter meets Gwen at the ceremony just in time to receive his certificate, where the two share a kiss in front of everyone. However, later in the evening, Peter tells Gwen about the visions he's been having and insists that he needs to keep his promise, albeit they stay friends.

After years of being away from the city for boarding school, Harry Osborn returns as the heir to Oscorp Industries and talks with his father, Norman, who is in very poor health. Norman explains to Harry that the illness is genetic and that Harry is at the age where it will begin to show. Before he dies, he gives Harry a small device which he claims contains his life's work. The next day, it is reported that Norman Osborn has passed away, making Harry Osborne CEO of Oscorp. Upon hearing the news, Peter Parker visits Harry and the two are revealed to have been childhood friends.

Max Dillon, now obsessively assuming that he and Spider-Man are best friends due to the compliment he made, attends work on his birthday as an electrician at Oscorp. Whilst performing maintenance on some malfunctioning equipment (presumably placed deliberately), he is badly electrocuted, loses his balance, and falls into a tank of electric eels being used for experiments. The eels attack him with so much electricity that the glass shatters and as a result, he becomes a human mass of electricity. Meanwhile, Peter meets Gwen in attempt to maintain a friendship, and Gwen tells Peter that a job opportunity and scholarship at Oxford means she has to move to England. Before the two can discuss it, Max accidentally shuts off the power to Times Square whilst looking for electricity to power himself. Spider-Man arrives and attempts to calm the situation down, with Gwen recognizing him from an encounter in an elevator; Max agrees, but after the police and a sniper try to shoot him, Max thinks that Spider-Man has betrayed him and attacks, destroying the buildings around. Spider-Man eventually stops him and he is taken to Oscorp to be tested on.

Harry begins to show symptoms of his illness and uses the device his father gave him to deduce that Spider-Man's blood could help save him. He asks Peter for help finding him but Peter refuses, unsure of what effects the transfusion would have. Parker visits Harry again, this time as Spider-Man, but again refuses. Afterwards, Harry is framed by members of the Oscorp board for covering up the accident involving Max Dillon, now known as Electro, and removed from his position as CEO. An employee, Felicia Hardy, informs Harry of equipment kept off the books that could help him, and Harry makes a deal with Electro to get him back in to the Oscorp building. Once in, he finds a suit of armour and other equipment made by his father, including mechanical wings, mechanical tentacles. Harry gets Menken to inject him with venom, from the now destroyed spiders, causing him to transform into a monster.

Peter uses information left behind by his father to locate the video message Richard left. In it, Richard explains that he had to leave New York because he wasn't willing to go along with Norman Osborn's plans to use what they had created for biological weapons. Peter then receives a voicemail message from Gwen, telling him that she was offered the spot at Oxford and was heading to the airport to fly there earlier than expected. Peter manages to catch her by writing "I LOVE YOU" on the Brooklyn Bridge, and professes his love for her, and the two agree to go to England together. They are interrupted by a blackout caused by Electro, who Peter heads off to fight. Gwen eventually follows, against Peter's demands (he even webs her hand to a car), and the two are able to defeat Electro by overloading his electricity supply. Their celebration is short-lived as Harry arrives, now the Green Goblin. Upon seeing Gwen and Spider-Man together, the Goblin quickly deduces Spider-Man's identity and snatches up Gwen. Spider-Man follows and the two engage in a climactic duel inside a clock tower, with Gwen caught in the middle. Despite Spider-Man's best efforts, Gwen falls down the tower and although Spider-Man manages to catch her with a webline, he discovers she is dead. Spider-Man cradles her body and weeps.

Months pass and Spider-Man is nowhere to be seen in New York, as Peter spends every day at Gwen's grave. Meanwhile, Harry Osborn is visited by Gustav Fiers who tells him that they have found several suitable candidates. Harry advises to to keep it small and that he'll find everything he needs, at Oscorp. The first chosen candidate is Aleksei Sytsevich, whom they have broken out of prison and given a large suit of armor developed by Oscorp. He attacks the city streets in the suit, going by the name The Rhino. After finally listening to the recording of Gwen's valedictorian speech, Peter is inspired to return as Spider-Man and confront him.

Stan Lee will make a cameo appearance, as usual, at Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy's high school graduation.
 * Cast                   =
 * Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man / Peter Parker
 * Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy
 * Jamie Foxx as Electro / Max Dillon
 * Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn
 * Campbell Scott as Richard Parker
 * Embeth Davidtz as Mary Parker
 * Colm Feore as Donald Menken
 * Felicity Jones as Felicia
 * Paul Giamatti as The Rhino / Aleksei Sytsevich
 * Sally Field as Aunt May
 * Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben
 * Chris Cooper as Norman Osborn
 * Marton Csokas as Dr. Kafka
 * Denis Leary as Captain George Stacy
 * B. J. Novak as Alistair Smythe
 * Sarah Gadon {{cite web|url=http://www.torontolife.com/style/best-dressed/2013/07/24/sarah-gadon-some-like-it-hot/|title=Sarah Gadon is ready to heat up Hollywood|last=Shea|first=Courtney|date=24 July 2013|accessdate=4 August 2013|work=Toronto Life}} as Kari


 * Notes                  = * Shailene Woodley was initially cast as Mary Jane Watson. In June 2013, Woodley revealed that her scenes had been cut from the film, and instead will appear in the third film in the franchise. Canadian actress Sarah Gadon, whose casting was announced later the same day, was rumored to replace Woodley in the role for the next film, but Gadon confirmed this was not the case via her Twitter account.
 * The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the first Spider-Man film to film entirely in New York. New York governor Andrew Cuomo has also called the film the "biggest movie production in New York history."
 * Shooting for the film wrapped on 25 June 2013, after 100 days of filming.
 * The film received mixed reviews from critics, with a 53% from Rotten Tomatoes.


 * Trivia                 = * The film and its release date were announced on August 5, 2011, almost a year prior to the first film's release, and before the first film had finished filming.
 * The Rhino's appearance prior to gaining his armor is based off the "Tracksuit Draculas" of Matt Fraction's Hawkeye.
 * Although the name "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" was colloquially used to describe the film since its announcement, the title of the film was not confirmed until February 05, 2013.
 * DCPs for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 were distributed under the alias "Pole."
 * On July 17, 2013, two more installments of the franchise were announced. The third installment will be released on June 10, 2016, and the fourth installment on May 4, 2018, making each film two years apart.
 * This is the third Spider-Man film to be released in May, alongside Spider-Man (2002), and Spider-Man 3. Also, this film will be released the day before the 12th anniversary of the original film's release.
 * A mid-credits scene in this film is a promotion for X-Men: Days of Future Past. This is due to the fact that Webb had signed on to a film for Fox but left to direct this film, with the scene being a compromise between Fox and Sony.
 * Peter Parker mentioning that his pay was fair for 1961 is a reference to the year Amazing Fantasy, the comic series Spider-Man first appeared on, began publishing.
 * The clock in the tower where Gwen Stacy dies stops at 1:21, it was Amazing Spider-Man #121 the comic in which Gwen died.

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