Amazing Spiderman, plot and spoilers (Hidden bottom of page).

Hands up who have read the Spiderman comics past and present! (ME!).

But to those who haven’t and want to know what we can expect in Marc Webb’s reincarnation of Spiderman I shall tell you.  Then and only then will I drop the potential spoiler.

Before I Start the following information is from comics alone and may not be what appears in the film at all.  The new Spiderman will rely heavily on the new Ultimate Spiderman comics which reinvent Spidey for a modern audience.  Instead of being a photographer for the Daily Bugle he is a web designer.  For the most of it (as far as I have read anyhow) he is in high school, and will be kept there.

What I know about the comics and the film show that they’ve not entirely lifted from the comics. 

To not go into too much detail however, I’ll just tell you that the love interest in this will be Gwen Stacey not Mary Jane, which is from the original comics rather than the new ones.  In the original comics Gwen dies and returns as a clone which then transfers into a more epic saga.  In the new ones she lives with Peter and his Aunt May, with Peter going out with MJ while this is going on and no sexual connotations involved.  Why does she live with Peter and his Aunt May?  Well that is part of the spoiler.  Highlight below.

In the comics Gwen’s dad is a police captain who dies after a Spiderman imposter robs a bank.  This may result in Gwen hating Spiderman but going out with Peter at the same time which could cause a lot of conflict and interesting drama for the screen.

However, also in the comics Mary Jane is shown Peters secret very early on.  Like from the start.  So this may result to Peter switching from Gwen to MJ.  But that’s just speculation.

The real spoiler bit is this.  Although we technically know Captain Stacey dies in action we don’t know when or to what relevance it will have on the plot or the sequel.  In a passing with MTV Denis Leary the actor playing Gwen’s dad said this:

“I’m not allowed to say anything about the ending of ‘Spider-Man’ — or the ending of ‘Rescue Me,’ ” he told us at the opening festivities for the Tribeca Film festival. “It’s verboten! I can’t tell you!”

Yes we can read into it, even if it does sound elusive.  But MovieCake believes that he will die in the film, and potentially quite near the end which will leave a lot open for a sequel (which they will be).

There you have it.

Any thoughts?

Ben Doran