Spider-Man (2002)

Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name , the film stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, a high school student living in
New York City , who turns to crimefighting after developing spider-like super powers.



 
Spider-Man also stars Kirsten Dunst as Peter's love interest Mary Jane Watson , Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn (a.k.a. the
Green Goblin ), Rosemary Harris and Cliff Robertson as Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and James Franco as his best friend Harry Osborn .
After progress on the film stalled for nearly 25 years, it was licensed for a worldwide release by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1999 after it acquired options from
MGM on all previous scripts developed by Cannon Films , Carolco and New Cannon . Exercising its option on just two elements from this multi-script acquisition (a screenplay credited to James Cameron , Ted Newsom, John Brancato, Barney Cohen, and "Joseph Goldman" (the pen name of Menahem Golan ) and a later treatment credited solely to Cameron), Sony hired
David Koepp to create a working screenplay from this "Cameron material". Directors Roland Emmerich , Ang Lee , Chris Columbus , Jan de Bont , M. Night Shyamalan , Tony Scott and David Fincher were considered to direct the project before Raimi was hired as director in 2000. The Koepp script was rewritten by
Scott Rosenberg during preproduction and received a dialogue polish from Alvin Sargent during production.
Filming took place in Los Angeles, and New York City from January 8 to June 30, 2001. Spider-Man premiered in the Philippines on April 30, 2002, and had its general release in the United States on May 3, 2002. It became a critical and financial success. For its time, it was the only film to reach $100 million in its first weekend, had the largest opening weekend gross of all time, and was the most successful film based on a comic book. With $821.7 million worldwide, it was 2002's third-highest-grossing film and is the 56th-highest-grossing film of all time (seventh at the time of release).
The film was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards ceremony for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Mixing . Due to the success of the film, Columbia Pictures and Marvel released two sequels , Spider-Man 2 in 2004, and Spider-Man 3 in 2007.

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