The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (also known as The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro in Brazil) is the tentative title of the upcoming sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man.

Plot
For Peter Parker, life is busy – between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen, high school graduation can’t come quickly enough. Peter hasn’t forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away – but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.

Cast

 * Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
 * Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy
 * Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn/Green Goblin
 * Jamie Foxx as Max Dillon/Electro
 * Paul Giamatti as Aleksei Sytsevich/The Rhino
 * Colm Feore as Donald Menken
 * Chris Cooper as Norman Osborn
 * Sally Field as May Parker
 * Martin Sheen as Ben Parker
 * Felicity Jones as a to-be-confirmed character
 * B.J. Novak as a to-be-confirmed character
 * Marton Csokas as Dr. Kafka
 * Denis Leary as George Stacy
 * Kari Coleman as Helen Stacy
 * Campbell Scott as Richard Parker
 * Embeth Davidtz as Mary Parker
 * Sarah Gadon as an artifical intelligence police officer
 * Stan Lee as a graduation guest

Production History
Series co-star Emma Stone said The Amazing Spider-Man will be the first in what is envisioned as a new series. Columbia Pictures said in March 2011 that it had contracted James Vanderbilt to write a sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man, and in August 2011, Sony announced a release date of May 2, 2014.

Columbia Pictures confirmed that Marc Webb will be directing the Amazing Spider-Man sequel. Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, and Jeff Pinkner (Fringe) wrote the screenplay, based in part on a draft from The Amazing Spider-Man scribe, James Vanderbilt. Shooting is supposed to begin in Feburary 2013.

Trivia

 * In August 2011, eleven months before the release of "The Amazing Spider-Man", Sony announced the release date for this sequel.
 * Dane DeHaan, Alden Ehrenreich, Brady Corbet, Eddie Redmayne, Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth and Boyd Holbrook were considered to play Harry Osborn. Dane DeHaan was officially cast as Harry on December 3, 2012.
 * Jamie Foxx stated that Electro will not be wearing his classic costume from the comics.
 * Jamie Foxx is the first Oscar winner to portray a Spider-Man villain.
 * Chris Cooper previously appeared in "Seabiscuit", a film already referenced in the immediately before this one, which featured Tobey Maguire and Elizabeth Banks, who appeared in the previous film series.
 * Director Marc Webb chose to shoot on 35mm film instead of the digital Red Epic cameras the original was shot with. While it is relatively common for franchise films to shoot on film and transition to digital for sequels as digital cinematography and 3D has become more commonplace (e.g. "Resident Evil: Afterlife", "Skyfall", "Iron Man 3", "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides") this is a rare example of a franchise switching to film after being shot on digital.
 * Rochester, NY, location for the filming of the car chase is the home of Kodak. The movie is being filmed using Kodak film.
 * Marc Webb had a two-picture contract with Twentieth Century Fox, which he partially fulfilled by directing "(500) Days of Summer". The second feature would have conflicted with his schedule for directing this film. To be released from that obligation long enough to shoot this film, Webb had to agree to extend that contract to three pictures.
 * Shailene Woodley was cast and filmed scenes as Mary Jane Watson before the role was cut from the film.
 * Jane Levy was considered for the role of Mary Jane Watson.
 * Chris Cooper (who plays Norman Osborn in this second film of the Spider-Man reboot) was considered for the role of Doc Ock/Dr. Otto Octavius in the second film of the series, released in 2004.
 * The film's portrayal of Electro combines the classic Marvel Comics character (mild Maxwell Dillon, who acquires superpowers in an accident and goes insanely villainous) with the Marvel "Ultimate" character (a leather-clad supervillain).