10 Big Mistakes That Forced Sony To Give Up On The Amazing Spider-Man

6. Killing Off Gwen Stacy

Other times, meanwhile, the filmmakers' slavish devotion to the source material was their downfall. Raimi's first Spider-Man film toyed with the iconography of the most classic Spider-Man story (other than his origin), The Night Gwen Stacy Died; except they swapped out MJ for Gwen as the damsel in distress, kidnapped by the insane Green Goblin and held over a precipitously high drop from a bridge in New York. And she didn't actually die, which was actually a neat subversion of what came before. Deciding that was too smart for them, the makers of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 decided to follow the comic books to a tee and kill of Gwen Stacy at the end of that movie. Which was a terrible decision - they lost Emma Stone, one of the big draws to the franchise, thanks to her own star power and genuine chemistry with Andrew Garfield. Replicating that with another actress is going to be tough. It was also not anywhere near the big twist it was supposed to be. If there's one thing everyone knows anything about Gwen Stacy, it's that she gets killed. Everyone saw it coming. It was pointless, bad storytelling and bad for business.