Monday, 21 April 2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

The official site here. It is directed by music video director Marc Webb, who made his feature length directorial debut with (500) Days of Summer. It stars Andrew Garfield in the lead role as Peter Parker. Garfield, whose name was adapted from Garfinkel, grew up in Epsom, a town in Surrey, UK, known for the eponymous Epsom Downs.

The Spider-Man character was co-created by Stan Lee. His parents came to America from Romania.

Actor, musician and comedian Jamie Foxx, who starred in Django Unchained, plays Electro, who starts the movie as electrician, Max. Jamie Foxx was born in the town of Terrell in the Lone Star State, named after the "white on blue" star on the Texas flag. Texas was an independent republic between 1836 to 1846, after it gained independence from Mexico.