The all new Friendly neighborhood Spiderman unveiled

British actor Andrew Garfield, a relative unknown in the acting fraternity, will succeed Tobey Maguire as the new Spiderman in the latest installment of the franchise, slated for a summer 2012 release.

This new edition of the franchise revolves around the formative years of the Peter Parker character and will be a prequel to the already released 3 installments. Garfield, one of Variety Magazine’s ’10 Actors to Watch’ (2007) also starred with Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep in the Robert Redford directed movie ‘Lions for Lambs’.

The first three films of this super hero series were directed by Sam Raimi and turned out to be blockbusters grossing nearly $2.5 billion worldwide and setting several box office records. The movies were released in 2002, 2004 and 2007, while the first two films received positive responses, the rating for the third film dropped a little. The 4^th in the series was slated for release in 2011 but has been delayed since Sam Raimi withdrew from the project.

Now Sony Entertainment is all set to bring the web action back to screen with a new Spiderman Andrew Garfield and a new director 35 year old Marc Webb of ‘Days of Summer’ fame. Marc Webb is already full of praises for Garfield and said "He has a rare combination of intelligence, wit, and humanity. Mark my words; you will love Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker."

The remaining cast for the movie including the villain is still to be announced. Spiderman 4 is slated to go into production this December and will be shot in 3D.

Movie buffs feel Sony is playing a huge gamble with the movie by re-casting it and they still hope that the movie’s character and not its cast manages to pull the movie along.

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