 The Amazing Spider @-@ Man is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider @-@ Man , and sharing the title of the character 's longest @-@ running comic book of the same name . It is the fourth theatrical Spider @-@ Man film produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Entertainment , and a reboot of Sam Raimi 's 2002 – 2007 trilogy preceding it . The film was directed by Marc Webb . It was written by James Vanderbilt , Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves and it stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider @-@ Man , Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy , Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curtis Connors , Denis Leary as NYPD Captain George Stacy , along with Martin Sheen and Sally Field as the uncle and aunt of Peter Parker , Ben Parker and May Parker . The film tells the story of Peter Parker , a teenager from New York who becomes Spider @-@ Man after being bitten by a genetically altered spider . Parker must stop Dr. Curt Connors as a mutated lizard , from spreading a mutation serum to the city 's human population . 
