Daniel Gillies | Spider-Man 2

• Directed by: Sam Raimi
• Screenplay by: Alvin Sargent
• Story by: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael Chabon
• Based on: Spider-Man by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
• Produced by: Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad
• Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, Donna Murphy
• Cinematography: Bill Pope
• Edited by: Bob Murawski
• Music by: Danny Elfman
• Production companies: Columbia Pictures, Marvel Enterprises, Laura Ziskin Productions
• Distributed by: Sony Pictures Releasing
• Release date: June 30, 2004
• Running time: 127 minutes

Peter Parker is an unhappy man: after two years of fighting crime as Spider-Man, his life has begun to fall apart. The girl he loves is engaged to someone else, his grades are slipping, he cannot keep any of his jobs, and on top of it, the newspaper Daily Bugle is attacking him viciously, claiming that Spider-Man is a criminal. He reaches the breaking point and gives up the crime fighter's life, once and for all. But after a failed fusion experiment, eccentric and obsessive scientist Dr. Otto Octavius is transformed into super villain Doctor Octopus, Doc Ock for short, having four long tentacles as extra hands. Peter guesses it might just be time for Spider-Man to return, but would he act upon it?