'The Amazing Spider-Man' trailer description makes Raimi-Webb comparisons inevitable

Comic-book fans and movie-goers alike were confused when Sony Pictures announced a Spider-Man reboot was in order just 5 years after Sam Raimi's box office record-breaking trilogy ended.

Buzz for Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man has been growing as production photos of stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone surfaced, and the power players behind the web-slinging hero's latest big screen venture recently announced that Garfield and company would be at this year's Comic-Con.

Cinema Blend reported that along with the panel of stars, a teaser trailer would also premiere at the four-day pop culture party in San Diego, and Movie Web claims to have gotten their hands on a play-by-play of the first look.

According to their description, Webb's Spidey origin tale is both similar and different than Raimi's.

The casting is obviously a change. The Social Network's gangly Garfield is replacing Tobey Maguire as protagonist Peter Parker, while funny gal Stone is taking over the role of leading lady from Kirsten Dunst. Although their characters are completely different girlfriends of Peter Parker's past, and the British Rhys Ifans plays a villain, who, while green like Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin, is a little more reptilian in nature.

The similarities come in the plot itself. Movie Web reports that there's still a fateful spider bite, a tearful scene with Peter and Uncle Ben, a muttering of the Marvel hero's famous tagline "With great power comes great responsibility" and some epic shots of Garfield web-slinging around Manhattan and Ifans mutating into a well-known foe.

The comparisons to Raimi's origin story, which brought in $403 million, aren't likely to cease in the already competitive world of bringing superheroes to the big screen, but Webb's directorial chops were commended after his work on 500 Days of Summer.

The Amazing Spider-Man hits theaters July 3, 2012.