June 30, 2004(us release date)
April 12, 2003(filming date)
The Spider Will Return
This Summer A Man Will Face His Destiny, A Hero Will Be Revealed
Sacrifice - Destiny - Choice
On July 2, 2004 Columbia Pictures' Spider-Man® 2 swings into theaters. Spider-Man grossed more than $820 million worldwide and became the fifth highest grossing movie in U.S. history.
 Spider-Man® 2 explores the Peter's character as he faces new challenges and struggles with "the gift and the curse," desperately trying to balance his dual identities as the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man and his life as a college student. Tormented by his secrets, Peter finds that his relationships with all those he holds dear are in danger of unraveling.
His life-long yearning for M.J. (Kirsten Dunst) becomes even stronger as he fights the impulse to reveal his secret life and declare his love. His friendship with Harry Osborn (James Franco) is complicated by the young Osborn's bitterness over his father's death and his growing vendetta against Spider-Man. Even Peter's beloved Aunt May (Rosemary Harris), who has fallen on hard times after the death of Uncle Ben, begins to have doubts about her nephew.
Peter's life is about to become even more complicated as he encounters a formidable new foe -- Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina). Peter must use all the powers at his disposal to try to stop this diabolical madman in his octagonal tracks.
FIRST TEASER TRAILER
As the teaser trailer opens we find Peter and MJ discussing  their relationship at a coffee shop. Mary Jane asks Peter, “Do you love me?” He replies no, but we could tell he’s hiding his true emotions. As they’re about to kiss, a van comes literally flying through the front window of the shop, and the two narrowly miss it. (Via Pete’s spider sense.) Who approaches them, but our old buddy, Doctor Octopus? A few clips of Ock in action and we the main characters appear on the screen. Peter runs through an alleyway, hurriedly changing into his familiar, world famous costume! A dramatic web-slinging sequence follows. As Spidey draws closer, the camera reveals it as a reflection in Doc Ock’s glasses. Octavius turns, scaling a building with the use of his mechanical appendages.
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TRIVIA
Sam Raimi officially signed on to direct on 1 April 2002, more than a month before the first film opened.
For a scene featuring fighting on the exterior of a subway train amidst a crowd of skyscrapers, portions of this film were filmed in Chicago, Illinois on the famous elevated "Loop" standing in for New York City's 9th St. El in Manhattan, torn down in 1940, with routes transferred to underground subway lines. Chicago 'el' trains were made up to appear as 'R'-train cars complete with MTA New York City Subway decals and 'Forest Hills' on their destination board.
Filming began before an official script was completed.
Sam Neill was considered to play Doc Ock.
Tobey Maguire's participation was in doubt at one point because he was suffering severe back pains. Jake Gyllenhaal, was lined up to play Spider-Man and had already begun preparation, but Maguire decided to take part after all.
Filming was originally scheduled in February 2003, but Tobey Maguire injured his arm causing filming to be delayed two months.
Testing with focus groups was done to help determine the film's title, at one point the titles "Spider-Man: No More", "Spider-Man 2 Lives" and "Spider-Man: Unmasked".
Opening sequence features artwork by artist Alex Ross, which recaps the events in Spider-Man (2002).
The plot of the movie, involving Peter Parker quitting crime-fighting, is largely inspired by The Amazing Spider-Man #50, "Spider-Man No More". The shot of Peter dumping his Spider-Man costume in an alley trash can is identical to a famous panel from that issue.
The film features two other villains from the comics. John Jameson (son of J. Jonah Jameson) is the Man-Wolf and Dr. Curt Connors (presumably the same 'Dr. Connors" mentioned in the first film that fired Peter for being late too often) is the Lizard. Coincidentally, both are "Jekyll and Hyde" type villains in that they are good people who are transformed periodically against their will into their vicious, animal-like alter-egos.
Bruce Campbell was originally slated to fill the role of Dr. Connors, but the role was given to Dylan Baker. Consequently, one of the earliest drafts of the script, with Campbell cast as Dr. Connors, called for the Lizard to make an appearance toward the end of the film, to which Doctor Octopus, knowing that Spider-man is Peter, would have tried to help him subdue the Lizard/Dr. Connors, who is a close friend of Doc Ock/Otto Octavius in the film. That angle was dropped because Raimi, if he is on to direct the next film, plans on using the Lizard as the primary villain (alongside Harry Osborn as the next Green Goblin), and did not want the very popular and classic villain to simply be a minor nuisance. Raimi also knew that most people would be able to recognize Bruce Campbell immediately, and recall his comical performance from the first film as the wrestling promoter, and he did not want Dr. Connors to be a recycled actor.
Alfred Molina who plays Dr. Octopus, actually gave names to his four mechanical tentacles (Larry, Harry, Flo, and Moe). Flo was the top right tentacle, because it was operated by a female grip and that particular tentacle was the most motherly, which removed his sunglasses and gave him sips of his drink.
When J. Jonah Jameson is creating a name for Doctor Octopus he suggests that the villain be named Doctor Strange but then realizes that the name has already been taken. This is referring to Spider-man's comic book ally of the same name.
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