Spider-Man (2008 Film)

Marvel's Spider-Man is a 2007 American superhero film directed by Edgar Wright, co-produced by Kevin Feige, Columbia Studios & Marvel Studios, with a screenplay penned by Alvin Sargent, Michael Bacall, & Edgar Wright as the first standalone film based on the fictional Marvel character, Spider-Man,created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, in a set of future installments. There was another Spider-Man film planned back in 2001 with Sam Raimi directing but was cancelled for unknown reasons.

This is the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe After Iron Man (MCU)

This film follows the first outing of Peter Parker as Spider-Man, who faces off against Norman Osborn aka The Green Goblin to protect those he loves, and along the way, he must learn to balance power with responsibility.

Anton Yelchin stars as Spider-Man, alongside, Emma Stone, Nicholas Cage, Kyle Gallner, Martin Sheen, Sally Field & J.K. Simmons

Plot
High-school sophomore Peter Parker lives with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and is a school outcast and victim of constant bullying. He secretly harbors a huge crush on his fellow classmate Gwen Stacy but he is too shy to approach her. Peter is rivaled Midtown High football star Flash Thompson who is the school bully and has a crush on Gwen as well. Peter’s best friend Harry Osborn is the son of Dr. Norman Osborn a scientist and owner of OsCorp, who is trying to secure an important military weapons contract.

On a school field trip, he visits a genetics laboratory with Harry and awkwardly asks Gwen if he could take pictures of her for the School Blog. while taking pictures of Gwen, Peter is suddenly bitten by a genetically engineered "super spider." Shortly after arriving home, he becomes ill and falls unconscious.

The next morning, Peter finds that he is no longer near-sighted, and his body has transformed into a more muscular physique. At school, he finds that his body can produce webs from the wrists, and his reflexes have been quickened. Feeling confident, Peter decides to try and ask Gwen out on a date the following evening. However, he is stopped by Midtown High football star Flash Thompson and his friends. Flash attempts to instigate Peter into a neighborhood brawl, but Peter refuses. When Flash charges him, though, Peter displays amazing agility and embarrasses Flash, causing his friends to run away. When Flash threatens to call the authorities on Peter, he simply runs back home. Realizing that the spider's bite has given him spider-like powers, he trains himself to scale walls, jump between rooftops, and swing through the city.

Meanwhile Norman frustrated that he hasn't got the weapons contract yet, experiments on himself with an unstable performance-enhancing chemical. After absorbing the chemical, he goes insane, kills his assistant, and destroys the laboratory.

Wanting to impress Gwen, Peter decides to buy a sports car and enters a wrestling tournament. He wins the tournament by defeating heavyweight champion Crusher Hogan; however, the man running the event only gives Peter $100 for winning the match early. When a burglar robs the man, Peter takes his revenge by allowing the robber to escape, but he discovers later that the thief killed Uncle Ben during his getaway. Feeling responsible for Ben's death, and feeling guilty for rejecting his advice, after becoming an 11th grader Peter dedicates himself to fighting crime as the amazing Spider-Man. He makes money as a freelance photographer, selling pictures of himself as Spider-Man to Daily Bugle newspaper editor J. Jonah Jameson, who declares Spider-Man as a menace to New York.

One day while at coffee shop Peter, Harry and Gwen are watching the news which reports on an attack from a super powered criminal who dubs himself the Shocker. Peter runs off claiming he has "something else to do right now" before suiting up and swinging off to the scene of the crime. Peter gets into a quick scuffle with Shocker, ending in Peter managing to defeat the criminal and webbing him up before the police arrive.

Norman, upon learning OsCorp's board members plan to sell the company, attacks them at the World Unity Fair dressed in a goblin like suit; though Peter intervenes as Spider-Man, Norman still kills the board members. Jameson quickly dubs the mysterious killer the Green Goblin. The Green Goblin offers Spider-Man a place at his side, but Spider-Man refuses. They fight, and Spider-Man is wounded. At Thanksgiving dinner, May invites Gwen and the Osborns. During the dinner, Norman sees the wound on Peter and realizes he is Spider-Man. Shortly after he leaves, Green Goblin attacks and hospitalizes May.

As Peter, Gwen and Harry watch over May in the hospital, Gwen admits to Peter she is infatuated with Spider-Man, who has rescued her on numerous occasions, and asks Peter whether Spider-Man ever asked about her. Harry, who loves Gwen, arrives and interprets that she has feelings for Peter. Defeated, Harry laments to his father that Peter loves Gwen, unintentionally revealing Spider-Man's weakness.

The Green Goblin kidnaps and holds Gwen and a Roosevelt Island Tram car full of children hostage alongside the George Washington Bridge, challenging Spider-Man to another confrontation. He forces Spider-Man to choose whom to save, and drops Gwen and the children. Spider-Man manages to save the tram car, but Gwen dies when her neck snaps from the sudden jolt of Spider-Man's web catching her. While Green Goblin is pelted and heckled by civilians who have sided with Spider-Man. Green Goblin then redirects the fight into an abandoned building where they engage in a lengthy and brutal battle. When the Goblin threatens to torture Peter's remaining friends and loved ones, an enraged Spider-Man manages to overpower and savagely attack the Goblin beating him within an inch of his life. Norman reveals himself to halt the fight and he begs for forgiveness, but at the same time programs his glider to impale his foe from behind. Sensing the danger, Spider-Man instinctively dodges, and the glider impales Green Goblin. As he dies, Norman asks Spider-Man not to tell Harry of the Green Goblin's identity. Spider-Man takes Norman's body back to his house. Harry arrives to find Spider-Man standing over his father's body and incorrectly believes him to have murdered his father.

At Norman and Gwen’s funerals, Harry swears vengeance toward Spider-Man, and asserts that Peter is all the family he has left. Peter is then seen looking over Gwen's grave, lamenting on his battle with the Goblin. As Peter leaves the funeral, he recalls Ben's words, and accepts his new responsibility as Spider-Man.

Cast

 * Anton Yelchin as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
 * Nicholas Cage as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin
 * Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy
 * Kyle Gallner as Harry Osborn
 * Sally Field as Aunt May
 * Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben
 * Chace Crawford as Flash Thompson
 * J.K. Simmons as J.Jonah Jameson
 * Dane Cook as Herman Schultz/Shocker
 * Steve Austin as Crusher Hogan