The new ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ trailer: Enough of a Peter Parker departure?

 February 07, 2012 07:40   washingtonpost.com

If you felt a nagging sense of melancholia because “The Amazing Spider-Man” was not featured among this year’s Super Bowl commercials, cheer up: you didn’t have to wait long for a new trailer. A second preview for the Andrew Garfield-helmed Peter Parker reboot has been released online. It’s a promising sneak peek, full of all the things one would expect from a Spider-Man movie: grand shots of our red-and-blue-suited hero swooping through the city, close-ups of the concerned face of Parker’s love interest (this time, Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy) and the introduction of our villian (Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard). Read full article >>

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