Upcoming Spider-Man reboot is officially 'The Amazing Spider-Man'

Next year's reboot of Spider-Man has now been officially named - Andrew Garfield will star as the epoynymous webslinger in The Amazing Spider-Man. The title is interesting because it harks back to the comic-book source of Spidey and will further stoke expectations about the new series.

Spidey's latest outing has been lamented in some quarters as following too soon after Sam Raimi's sometimes great, sometimes awful Spider-Man trilogy, which came to a close in 2007.

A new image has also been released by Sony, giving another view of Spider-Man's newest costume:

The darker colouring is immediately apparent, and it is interesting to note the mechanical web-shooters, opposed to the fan-grating choice of biological goo shooters of Raimi's films.

With the title now locked in and the new image's seeming closer adherence to Spider-Man comic book lore, The Amazing Spider-Man looks to be evoking an intriguing, somewhat faithful reading of everybody's favourite neighbourhood webslinger.

Starring in the reboot alongside Garfield's Peter Parker/Spider-Man is Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, with Martin Sheen (Uncle Ben), Sally Field (Aunt May), C. Thomas Howell (Ray Cooper), Denis Leary (George Stacy), Irrfan Khan (Nels Van Adder / Proto-Goblin) and Rhys Ifans (Dr. Curt Conners / The Lizard), while Philip Seymour-Hoffman is rumoured as Venom (!?).