The Spectacular 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 to portray Spider-Man in film produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and a reboot of the film trilogy preceding it by 2002–07 that was distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film was directed by Mattew Vaughn, written by J.M Dematteis, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and stars Logan Lerman as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, Emma Roberts as Gwen Stacy, Aaron Eckhart as Dr. Curtis Connors, Mark Harmon as Captain George Stacy, Holland Roden as Mary Jane Watson, and Bryan Cranston as Norman Osborn along with Nicholas Hammond and Ju