The Spider-Man (film)

The Spider-Man is a 2020 British/American superhero crime film directed by Matthew Vaughn. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the film stars Jim Sturgess as Peter Parker, a news photographer in his mid-20's who gains spider-like powers after an accident in the enhanced super-spider testing room during a news report. After his uncle Ben is murdered by a criminal, Peter sets off to South Korea on a quest of self-discovery, where he discovers a ninja dojo and there learns how to use his spider-powers for self-defence, and is trained in the art of ninjutsu. He later returns to New York as the vigilante Spider-Man".

The film also stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Phineas Mason (a.k.a. the Tinkerer), Bryce Dallas Howard returns from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 as Peter's love interest Gwen Stacy, though it is not the same film universe, and Anton Yelchin as his best friend Harry Osborn.

Development of the film began with the ending of Marc Webb's 'The Amazing Spider-Man' film series in 2018. Opting to reboot the franchise with the same production team along with James Vanderbilt to stay on with writing the next Spider-Man film while Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves helped with the script as well. During pre-production, the main characters were cast in 2019. Props from the Webb films had been re-used, such as the artificial web-shooters. Using Red Digital Cinema Camera Company's RED Epic camera, principal photography started in May 2019 in South Korea before moving to New York City. The film entered post-production in August 2019. 3ality Technica provided 3D image processing, Sony Imageworks handled CGI and Hans Zimmer composed the film score.

Plot
Peter Parker (Jim Sturgess) is an ordinary 25 year old news photographer living in New York City. He is about to move out of his aunt and uncle's house in Queens, and is going to move into his own apartment. The next day, he is called by his boss at the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson (Xander Berkeley) to take pictures of a brand new species of spider, dubbed the "super-spider" by many. When Peter goes to investigate the laboratory where these spiders are stored, one of them bites Peter on the wrist. He eventually has to take the rest of the day off, but sends his pictures first.

At OsCorp, Harry Osborn (Anton Yelchin) is ordered by his father Norman (Mark Strong) to present the plans of a metal suit of armour to Professor Phineas Mason (Benedict Cumberbatch), an inventor at OsCorp. Harry gives him the plans, but Mason repeatedly tells him it will take time. Peter wakes up after two days "sick", and finds out he has spider-like powers.

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