

He and his wife had been trying to flee aboard a private jet when it crashed, killing them both. The opening sequence for the movie was a video message from his father, Richard Parker, who was a scientist at Oscorp. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 also included several details about Peter's deceased parents that would have likely been addressed in a sequel. "the Gentleman." Harry, Rhino, and the Gentleman's team-up, as well as the film's credits scene, implied that The Amazing Spider-Man 3 would have introduced a version of the Sinister Six. In the movie's final battle, Peter subdued both Electro and Harry Osborn, sending the latter to prison, but not before Harry killed Peter's girlfriend Gwen Stacy. His guilt from Gwen's death caused Peter to abandon his Spider-Man duties for five months, until Aleksei Sytsevich, also called "the Rhino," broke out of prison with the help of Harry and his associate Gustav Fiers, a.k.a.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ended with clear plans for a sequel. Nevertheless, if Sony had followed through with their initial plans, this is what The Amazing Spider-Man 3 would have looked like. There has not yet been an official response to the chatter around the canceled Amazing Spider-Man 3, and whether Garfield would even return for such a project. Yet, the fan reaction to seeing Tom Holland's Spider-Man meet Maguire and Garfield's versions in No Way Home has many wishing Garfield could have completed his third movie. Related: How The MCU Would Be Irreversibly Different If Garfield Was Spider-Man Although Sony had hoped to make a third and fourth movie with Garfield, along with other spin-off projects, they later scrapped these ideas and moved forward with a deal with the MCU instead.

The movie received generally favorable reviews despite telling a rather similar story, but its sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, suffered from trying to do too much. After three Spider-Man films starring Tobey Maguire, Sony decided to reboot the character with The Amazing Spider-Man, which retold his origin with the younger Andrew Garfield.
