Spider-Man producers talk Venom
Avi Arad and Matthew Tolmach have been nattering about the planned Venom spin-off movie.
One of the happiest rumours we heard this year was the one that linked the director of the marvellous Chronicle, Mr Josh Trank, with the long-in-gestation Spider-Man spin-off, Venom. And it's a project that, post-The Avengers, might just have got a bit of momentum to it.
The success of The Avengers has had an effect on not only the Marvel universe films (the budget increase for Iron Man 3, for example), DC is also trying to emulate the formula with a Justice League film, and a host of supporting projects. Now it seems as though Sony wants a piece of the action as well. Sony, of course, owns the cinematic rights to Spider-Man, and could see the proposed appearance of everyone's favourite web-slinger in a future Avengers film to be quite lucrative. But it doesn't appear to be happy to stop there, s separate films for Spider-Man and Venom, as well as the two meeting together in the planned Spider-Man sequels, would certainly see the studio make the most of the characters.
In a recent interview producers Avi Arad and Matthew Tolmach discussed Venom. Avi Arad had the following to say about the project: "It's an Eddie Brock story. We want to be as close to the comics as possible. Especially in Eddie Brock's story. But again, pseudo-science is becoming science. All these tidbits about webs, artificial webs, is a huge industry now. Spider webs have unique qualities that will be huge for communications, fibers, and so forth. So we have taken the approach that we want to make the huge amazing movie about Eddie."
Matthew Tolmach added: "He was a journalist. He had the wrong story, he got in trouble for it, he got fired. The whole essence to us for the Marvel characters is stay close to the bible, stay close to the emotional story, and the rest is fun. Look for the worlds to make sense with one another. Hopefully, all these worlds will live together in peace someday."
Interesting stuff. More on Venom when we get it.
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Fingers crossed they don't go for another sh*tty tv show actor to play Eddie Brock........
Someone help me here - isn't venom a bad guy? How would a standalone film work?
Oh no, not 'another' Venom movie. Lets home they do stick close to the comic book. But which version of Venom might they be thinking of, there are quite a few, from good guy to evil freak.
It's positive that the studio are changing their tune a bit though.
They actually seem to be learning something from Marvel's approach which is to stay pretty true to the comics as much as possible.
What happens in practice is something else though!
I would imagine they go down the tortured soul route with Brock where initially he uses the suit to get his vengeance until he realises exactly what it is and that he is losing control to the symbiote. I expect Betty and Glory perhaps to be supporting characters and possibly JJJ if he's in this reboot.
It also allows them to have a place to explore the symbiote mythos and family of characters (of which there are now many!) which actually do make Venom look like a good guy!
I remember reading the first Spiderman comic when it was released. There wasn't even a Venom around then until the Secret Wars. Now they're everywhere!
The original idea of a new costume for Spider-Man that would later become the character Venom was conceived of by a Marvel Comics reader. Marvel purchased the rights for $220 after the editor-in-chief at the time, Jim Shooter, sent a letter acknowledging Marvel's desire to acquire the idea from him. He's got some bragging rights right there! :)
I'd probably say 'anti-hero', rather than villain. Though I think Venom came 22nd ish in the Top 100 comic book villains list. Avi Arad is certainly describing the new Venom in his movie as such.
Yeah, this could be great, a bit more screen time for Topher Grace....
Giving the character space to grow rather than shoe-horning him into the likes of Spider-Man 3 alongside Sandman has to be a step in the right direction. I like that studios are prepared to think long term now with comic book movies...