The Amazing Spider-Man is an American-Action Superhero television series, based off of the Marvel superhero Spider-Man, premiering on the CW Television Network on November 11, 2016. Featuring Dylan Sprayberry, Emilia McCarthy, Colin Ford, Sally Field, Sammi Hanratty, and Jake Abel as the initial Main Cast, the series follows the life of Peter Parker, a teenage boy that is bitten by a genetically enhanced spider and gains superhuman abilities, and uses them to fight crime.
Premise
Years of investigating his parents' disappearance, leads teenage Peter Parker to the company, Oscorp, where he is bitten by a genetically enhanced spider, giving him spider-like super powers. Now, after his uncle Ben is murdered, Peter strives to learn the truth about his parents and to find his uncle's killer, and becomes a masked superhero. Hiding his secret from his Aunt May, his best friends, Harry Osborn and Gwen Stacy, and his classmates, while selling his pictures to the Daily Bugle and working as an intern for Dr. Curtis Connors, but his fight against crime becomes more of a challenge, when psychotic villains with superhuman abilities begin attacking the superhero that has come to be known as the masked vigilante, Spider-Man.
Cast
- Dylan Sprayberry as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, a teenage boy, who as a child, was left at his Aunt May and Uncle Ben's doorstep by his parents. Years later, Peter's search for the truth leads him to Oscorp. On field trip there with his class, he sneaks off and is bitten by a genetically enhanced Spider, giving him superhuman speed and strength, and the ability to stick to walls. After his uncle Ben is murdered, Peter makes a suit and devices that can generate web fluid, to become a masked vigilante to save lives and fight crime. He works an internship at the lab of Dr. Curtis Connors, alonside his friends, Gwen and Eddie, and sells pictures to the Daily Bugle, while keeping his secret from his friends and family.
- Emilia McCarthy as Gwen Stacy, one of Peter's best friend and co-worker at Dr. Connor's lab, as well as the daughter of the Captain of the New York City Police Department, George Stacy. Like Peter, she is very smart, and they often joke about who's smarter. She is also good friends with Eddie and Harry, whom both harbor a crush on her, but doesn't reciprocate due to her feelings for Peter, which he was oblivious to, until later in the series, when they eventually begin a relationship, soon after she discovers her secret. She was eventually targeted by the Green Goblin to take away Peter's hope, and he drops her off a bridge, and she falls to her death, despite Peter's best effort to save her.
- Colin Ford as Harry Osborn, Peter and Gwen's best friend, and the son of Norman Osborn, the billionaire CEO of Oscorp. He and Peter have been friends since childhood and are considerably like brothers, but Harry often resents Peter, who often gains Norman's approval, something Harry can't seem to do, as he is often neglected by him, and because he harbors feelings for Gwen, who only has eyes for Peter, though they date a short time. Afraid to face friends and classmates after his father was revealed to be the Green Goblin, he left New York to go travel, returning later in the series, now knowing Peter's secret, and excepting it, hoping to return to his normal life.
- Sammi Hanratty as Mary Jane "M.J." Watson, the niece of one of May's friends, introduced when May tried to set Peter up with her. She began going to Midtown High School, and quickly became friends with Peter, Gwen, and Harry. She is a skilled actor and has a passion for the theatre, and persues her dream throughout the series. She becomes very close to Peter, and she comforts him after Gwen's death, and they eventually begin a relationship, but is becomes strained due to Peter's secret, which she eventually discovers.
- Sally Field as May Parker, the Aunt of Peter Parker, and the wife of Ben Parker. After Ben died, she began having financial problems, but has help from Peter, but she often worries about his strange behavior lately, coming home very late, with cuts and bruises, and Peter often worries about her health, and tries to keep her from doing to much at once, but she shrugs him off, and the two maintain a strong relationship.