Screenwriters Roberto Orci &Alex Kurtzman have signed up for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, rewriting the original script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Total Recall), according to Deadline.

When you realise Orci & Kurtzman wrote Star Trek and Mission: Impossible III, it sounds good that they’re on for Amazing Spider-man 2, although perhaps their work on the Transformers movies and Cowboys & Aliens should give us some pause.

Here’s what they had to say about joining the sequel, “We grew up as huge Spider-Man fans so, to us, the opportunity to work on this film is akin to being handed the Holy Grail. We love the direction Sony and the filmmakers are taking the Peter Parker/Spider-Man mythology and we couldn’t be more excited to be a part of this legendary franchise.”

Despite The Amazing Spider-man not reaching cinemas until July 4th, Spider-man 2 already has a May 2, 2014 release date set for this sequel, with the shoot already tentatively set for the first quarter of 2013.