Venom fans rejoice, Marvel is moving forward with a new stand alone film, yep you heard right, Venom is coming back to the big screen. We’ve confirmed that “the studio” has met recently with several “A list writers” about a spin-off film.
Eight years ago, New Line Cinema held the theatrical rights to Venom. Since then, the rights have reverted back Marvel. But does Sony have complete control over the character since he was a part of Spidey 3 or does Marvel control the rights to the character with Sony only having distribution rights? We have to assume that since there is movement and there has been recent meetings with writers this property must belong to Marvel since they have made an interim agreement with the WGA and proceed to develop projects during the current strike. Either way, one thing is for certain, Venom will get a second shot at the big screen.
i can't see it working myself.
if they go the anti-hero route they'll fuck it up.
if they do it without Spider-Man ,Venom's opposite in every way,they'll fuck it up.
if they do it with Topher Grace,they'll fuck it up.
they really should have just saved the character for Spidey 4 instead of Avi Arad forcing Sam Raimi to squeeze him into 3 thereby doing Venom & the rest of the movie a serious disservice. Raimi had shit locked with the total creative control he had with the comic-come-to-life that was Spidey 2. dumbass studio execs i tell ya. if Marvel are smart they'll wait the less than 2 years for the rights to Spider-Man to revert back to them from Sony/Fony Pictures & reboot the series so he fits in with Hulk,Iron Man etc . then re-introduce Venom further down the track.
Yeah poor Venom. I don't know who got fucked worse by Hollywood. Venom or Dr Doom? I still gotta say Doom but Venom was a major major MAJOR disappointment too. Topher Grace should have been held out as the next guy to play Peter Parker anyway, he was completely miscast as Eddie Brock.
