Stars Andrew Garfield (Peter Parker), Jamie Foxx (Electro) and Dane DeHaan (Harry Osborn) joined producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach and director Marc Webb onstage at San Diego Comic-Con today to present fans with their first look at The Amazing Spider-Man 2

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In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, for Peter Parker (Garfield), life is busy – between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen (Emma Stone), high school graduation can’t come quickly enough.Peter hasn’t forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father (Denis Leary) to protect her by staying away – but that’s a promise he just can’t keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro (Foxx), emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn (DeHaan), returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.The studio showed an extended trailer of sorts, which was a pretty noteworthy feat in and of itself since the film only wrapped filming a couple of days ago. Spidey's enjoying being Spidey in this film and things are going well for him. But where Peter Parker/Spidey's life seems to be going well, sad sack Oscorp employee and electrician Max Dillon is a schmoe ignored by society, a man jostled by pretty much every passerby on the streets of New York. We see how Spidey saves him while pursuing Russian gangster Aleksei Sytsevich (Paul Giamatti); this act makes Max feel like he's finally been noticed.Max, though, is a powerless man and the workplace accident that befalls him literally gives him all the power he'd ever want. Max is working on an electrical panel high up on a wall in the lab when a spark sends him plummeting down into a tank of electric eels -- ones that clearly are part of some sort of another sinister experiment at Oscorp. Needless to say, Max Dillon has now been transformed into Electro ... and now everyone will notice. He wants to burn the city and everyone in it to the ground, even Spidey.We saw brief scenes between Peter and Aunt May where she complains how he ruined the laundry by somehow turning it all red and blue. Peter tries to cover by saying he was washing the American flag. We see a brief scene between Peter and Gwen, but the real set-piece of the trailer was the street battle between Electro and Spidey. Even though the effects were still rough, there's definitely a hell's bells scale to their battle.

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Marc Webb said Giamatti's role as Aleksei Sytsevich, who is better known to comics readers as Rhino, isn't that big. He described it as a few scenes and meant to be played more for fun, as the humiliation Spidey gives the character bore out (I won't spoil it for you). Although it wasn't explicitly said, the impression was left that perhaps we won't see him as the actual Rhino in this film. We shall see.Overall, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 looked like good fun with Electro really being the character they're pushing the most. Max Dillon is a sympathetic everyman, but Electro is creepy and violent. It's too early to say whether the sequel will win over those who weren't enamored with the reboot, but Amazing Spider-Man 2 certainly looks like it's trying.The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens May 2, 2014.