Sam Raimi's Spider-Man starring Tobey Maguire came out in 2002, broke box office records and was followed by two successful sequels—most recently, Spider-Man 3 in 2007—yet Sony has decided it is soon enough to reboot the entire franchise with The Amazing Spider-Man.
The new flick starring Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker just opened on Wednesday to favorable reviews, super box-office numbers, and has two sequels already greenlit despite the fact that many of the plot points are the same ones covered in Raimi's original, which is only a decade old. The time span between reboots is becoming shorter as studios scramble to inject new life into their superhero franchises, but sometimes the time between original flick and reboot is head-scratchingly short.
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