The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film) years after release of "Spider-Man" (2002), in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D and released in home media in November 2012. The reboot received generally favorable reviews, with critics praising mostly Andrew Garfield's performance, the visual style, James Horner's musical score, and the realistic portrayal of the title character, but criticized some underdeveloped story-lines, noting the film's deleted scenes, and the introduction of the Lizard as the villain for being too surreal for the film. The film was a box office success, grossing over $757 million worldwide, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 2012. The film's sequel, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2",
Spider-Man in film pushing the film forward. In 2009, Gary Ross, who was then rewriting the latest draft of the unproduced "Spider-Man 4", was assigned to rewrite the "Venom" script and direct the film, in which Venom would be an antihero rather than a supervillain. In March 2012, "Chronicle" director Josh Trank negotiated his interest in directing the film with Sony, after Ross left development to direct "The Hunger Games". In June 2012, "The Amazing Spider-Man" producer Matt Tolmach, speaking of his and fellow producer Avi Arad's next project, a "Venom" film, suggested it could follow the shared-universe model of the film "The