The costumes used in the Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire Spider-Man trilogy weren’t all that good… in fact, they were pretty terrible. The Marc Webb-directed, Andrew Garfield-starring reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man, showed off a sleeker, sporty design that had some interesting variations, but looked too much like an “extreme” take on the classic blue and red suit. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (The Rise of Electro?) will be debuting its first official trailer next week. With all of the hype surrounding the film set to explode, a relic from the past has been unearthed detailing three different costumes that were ultimately turned down for the one Garfield donned in 2012.
The costumes are rendered in 3D CGI, so they look more metallic than they actually would have in the film. However, they still share a very distinct armor-like quality that takes away from Spider-Man’s everyman charm. Or, you know, as much “everyman charm” that he could have outside of his superpowers. The first of the costumes, which you can see in the gallery below, features the underarm webbing that Spider-Man debuted with back in the ’60s mixed with a Venom-like chest piece. The second costume makes the red more dominant than the blue. The third looks very armor-like, yet the most reminiscent of the costume ultimately used in the film.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 thankfully returns the wall crawler into an almost exact replica of his classic costume, a move I can most definitely get behind.
