The Amazing Spider-Man is the first installment to Marc Webb's and Sony Studios new reboot Spider-Man film series.
Development of the film began with the cancellation of Spider-Man 4 in 2010, ending director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film series that had starred Tobey Maguire as the titular superhero. Opting to reboot the franchise with the same production team along with James Vanderbilt to stay on with writing the next Spider-Man film while Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves helped with the script as well. During pre-production, the main characters were cast in 2010. New designs were introduced from the comics such as artificial web-shooters. Using Red Digital Cinema Camera Company's RED Epic camera, Principal photography started in December 2010 in Los Angeles before moving to New York City. The film entered Post-production in April 2011. 3ality Technica provided 3D image processing, Sony Imageworks handle