Spider-Man in Film

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Modern Spider-Man live-action feature film actors: (from left to right) Tobey Maguire in the Sam Raimi trilogy; Andrew Garfield in the Marc Webb duology; Tom Holland in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The fictional character Spider-Man, a comic book superhero created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and featured in Marvel Comics publications, has currently appeared in ten live-action films since his inception, not including fan made shorts and guest appearances in other Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films. Spider-Man is the alter-ego of Peter Parker, a talented young freelance photographer and aspiring scientist imbued with superhuman abilities after being bitten by a radioactive/genetically-altered spider.

The first live-action film based on Spider-Man was the unauthorized short Spider-Man by Donald F. Glut in 1969. This was followed by Spider-Man, an American made-for-television film that premiered on the CBS network in 1977. It starred Nicholas Hammond and was intended as a backdoor pilot for what became a weekly episodic TV series.

The rights to further films featuring the character were purchased in 1985, and moved through various production companies and studios before being secured by Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia Pictures) for $10 million (plus 5% of any movies' gross revenue and half the revenue from consumer products), who hired Sam Raimi to direct Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), and Spider-Man 3 (2007) starring Tobey Maguire. The first two films were met with positive reviews from critics, while the third film received a more mixed response. In 2010, Sony announced that the franchise would be rebooted. Marc Webb was hired to direct, with Andrew Garfield starring, and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) was released to positive reviews. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) saw mixed reviews.

In February 2015, Disney, Marvel Studios and Sony announced a deal to share the Spider-Man film rights, leading to a new iteration of Spider-Man being introduced and integrated into the MCU. The deal allows Sony to distribute and have final creative control over MCU films where Spider-Man is the main character, while Disney distributes the ones where he is not. Tom Holland portrays this younger version of Spider-Man, appearing in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), as well as a sequel to Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). All of Spider-Man's MCU appearances have received positive reviews thus far.

Plans for an animated Spider-Man film were officially announced by Sony in April 2015. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) combines Sony Pictures Imageworks' computer animation pipeline with traditional hand-drawn comic book techniques, inspired by the work of Miles Morales's co-creator Sara Pichelli. Completing the animation required up to 140 animators, the largest crew ever used by Sony Pictures Animation for a film. Into the Spider-Verse received universal acclaim, winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and becoming the highest-rated film in the Spider-Man franchise, surpassing Spider-Man 2.

Raimi's trilogy grossed $2.5 billion worldwide on a $597 million budget, while Webb's films grossed nearly $1.5 billion on a $480 million budget. Spider-Man's MCU films (Homecoming and Far From Home) have grossed over $1.4 billion on a $335 million budget and Into the Spider-Verse grossed $375 million on a $90 million budget. The Spider-Man films have grossed over $5.8 billion collectively at the global box office.

[edit] Early films

[edit] The Amazing Spider-Man series (1977–1981)

Film	Release date	Director	Screenwriter	Producers
Spider-Man	September 14, 1977	E. W. Swackhamer	Alvin Boretz	Charles W. Fries, Daniel R. Goodman and Edward J. Montagne
Spider-Man Strikes Back	May 8, 1978	Ron Statlof	Robert Janes
Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge	May 9, 1981		Lionel E. Siegel

[edit] Spider-Man (1977)

Main article: |Spider-Man (1977 film)

[edit] Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978)

Main arctile: Spider-Man Strikes Back

[edit] Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1981)

Main artcile: Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge

[edit] Spider-Man (1978)

Main artcile: Spider-Man (1978 film)

Film	Release date	Director	Screenplay by	Story by	Producer
Spider-Man	July 22, 1978	Kōichi Takemoto	Susumu Takaku	Saburo Yatsude	Susumu Yoshikawa

[edit] Development

[edit] Cannon Films

[edit] Carolco Pictures / MGM

[edit] James Cameron "scriptment"

[edit] Litigation

[edit] Columbia Pictures

Further information: Spider-Man (2002 film) § Development

[edit] Sam Raimi trilogy

Main article: Spider-Man (Sam Raimi film series)

Film	Release date	Director	Screenplay by	Story by	Producers
Spider-Man	May 3, 2002	Sam Raimi	David Koepp		Laura Ziskin and Ian Bryce
Spider-Man 2	June 30, 2004		Alvin Sargent	Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Michael Chabon	Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad
Spider-Man 3	May 4, 2007		Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent	Sam Raimi and Ivan Raimi	Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad and Grant Curtis

[edit] Spider-Man (2002)

Main article: Spider-Man

[edit] Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Main article: Spider-Man 2

[edit] Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Main article: Spider-Man 3

[edit] Marc Webb films

Film	Release date	Director	Screenplay by	Story by	Producers
The Amazing Spider-Man	July 3, 2012	Marc Webb	James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves	James Vanderbilt	Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach
The Amazing Spider-Man 2	May 2, 2014		Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner	Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner and James Vanderbilt	Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach

[edit] The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Main artcile: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film)

[edit] The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Main article: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

[edit] Licensing agreement with Marvel Studios

Further information: List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films

Film	Release date	Director	Screenplay by	Story by	Producers
Spider-Man: Homecoming	July 7, 2017	Jon Watts	John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein and Jon Watts & Christopher Ford and Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers	John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein	Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal
Spider-Man: Far From Home	July 2, 2019		Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers

[edit] Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Main article: Captain America: Civil War

[edit] Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Main article: Spider-Man: Homecoming

[edit] Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Main article: Avengers: Infinity War

[edit] Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Main article: Avengers: Endgame

[edit] Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Main article: Spider-Man: Far From Home

[edit] Animated Spider-Verse

Film	Release date	Director(s)	Screenwriter(s)	Producers	Status
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	December 14, 2018	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman	Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman	Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Christina Steinberg	Released
Untitled Spider-Verse sequel	TBA	Joaquim Dos Santos	David Callaham	TBA	In development

[edit] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Main article: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

[edit] Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham (2019)

[edit] Untitled Into the Spider-Verse sequel

[edit] Untitled female-centered spin-off

[edit] Potential projects

[edit] Other films

[edit] Marvel Super Heroes 4D (2010)

Main article: Marvel Super Heroes 4D

[edit] Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel (2013)

Main article: Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel

[edit] Recurring cast and characters

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Character	Made-for-TV films (1977–1981)	Spider-Man (1978)	Sam Raimi films (2002–2007)	Marc Webb films (2012–2014)	Marvel Cinematic Universe (2016–present)	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

[edit] Crew

Films	Live-action							Animated
	Spider-Man	Spider-Man 2	Spider-Man 3	The Amazing Spider-Man	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Spider-Man: Far From Home	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
	2002	2004	2007	2012	2014	2017	2019	2018

[edit] Home media

[edit] Reception

[edit] Box office

Film	Release date		Box office gross			Box office ranking		Budget	Ref(s)
	North America	Other territories	North America	Other territories	Worldwide	All time North America	All time worldwide
Sam Raimi films
Marc Webb films
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Animated Spider-Verse

[edit] Critical and public response

Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic	CinemaScore
				Sam Raimi films
Marc Webb films
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Animated Spider-Verse

[edit] Cancelled films

[edit] Sam Raimi trilogy

[edit] Spider-Man 4

[edit] Venom

[edit] Marc Webb films

[edit] Sequels

[edit] Spin-offs

[edit] See also

• List of accolades received by Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy
• List of films based on Marvel Comics
• Spider-Man in television
• Spider-Man in novels

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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