Is Venom Really Getting His Own Movie?

Venom We haven’t mentioned the Venom movie since last August here at Screen Rant because frankly, there’s been nothing to say about it.

Back then we reported that Avi Arad said that things are coming along “awesome” regarding the Venom movie, but was tight-lipped regarding casting or any other details. I guess that with the writers’ strike things have been dead in the water, but with Marvel recently cutting a side deal with the WGA it seems that things may be moving forward with this film.

IESB.net is reporting that:

“[They've] confirmed that ‘the studio’ has met recently with several ‘A-list writers’ about a spin-off film.”

There hasn’t been an official announcement yet, so I’m going to take this with a grain of salt.

Getting back to the Venom character – I know that he (it?) is wildly popular with many comic book fans but frankly, I just don’t see the appeal. I mean, he’s the bad guy. And not just your run of the mill bad guy, but a really twisted, vile bad guy.

Oh… ok, sorry… so THAT’s the appeal.

I don’t follow the character in the comics, so I’ll admit I’m not terribly familiar with him, but as far as I know he has no redeeming qualities whether he’s in full-on Venom mode or when he’s hiding in his host Eddie Brock.

I suppose you can create a movie around a villain – They did it quite successfully with Silence of the Lambs, but it doesn’t appeal to me much at this point.

Or am I missing something?

Source: IESB.net

Tags: venom,

michael

this is hard to understand? venom is a real nasty evil villian. if he get's his own movie who will be the hero who fight's him?

andries price

i like to see the venom it's cool i will see topher grace on the venom movie he's awsome and cool and two thums way up i like topher grace as venom on the venom movie and i will see topher grace as venom on spiderman 4 i like topher grace as venom i will see topher grace on venom and spiderman in theatres i like it.

schin

as far as im concerned an aggreeing with some of you!! VENOM NEEDS to be a R Rating or it will flop most likely cause all the venom fanbase is like hardcore/horror people i mean he is the baddest bad guy and yes toper pfffft whut a wuss
please open cast for venom!!!! yeah carnage and morbius while your at it and throw in a cool chick character too do the trillogy ILL watch...ok thanx

prtfvr

Pretty soon the studios will be making nothing but comics turned into movies. COOL!
:)

Dolemite3000

First off,the concept of having a comic book movie on a villian is a very unique concept,and having news that several A-list writers attached is excellent.What kind of angers me are the fanboys who are upset cause they believe that every movie must come from the source storyline in the comics.Remember how everyone complained about the fact heath ledger (R.I.P) was chosen to be the new Joker,and now everyone is praising this man like he is Christ.Give the Venom movie a chance.Heres hoping the movie will be as dark and morbid as it should be,cause if its not rated R,then its not gonna have the impact it should

venomtattoo

exactly right
for more on Venom's "honor" and "justice" system, see the comic book series "venom: Lethal Protector"

bill mcdermott

i think it could post my idea later

dominic babcock

nm it was just my computer being gay .....

Screen Rant

Um, what are you talking about? What link?

Vic

dominic babcock

whats with the link ???

dominic babcock

well venoms main enemy besides spider-man is carnage a venom movie would work if they dont mess up venom and what he does but if u think about the comics then he umm how should i say this umm well carnage and venom arent the only simbiotes cuz venom had a lot of offsprings like agony phage scream riot and lasher but im not sure if they are all evil but carnage was trying to kill all of them and venom was tryin to protect them all and scream actually gos to be a bad guy because she went to some other simbiots to try and control her simbiot side and none of them would help so she started killing all of the other simbiots including her siblings (riot phage lasher) and they all form together to make hybrid but im thinkin that they should use carnage venom and toxin (carnages offspring) hes a good guy i just learnt all this yesterday lol and ya they should do the movie about just carnage and venom and if they get into makin more of them then they should introduce all of the other simbiots there are others but i dont know there names yet ill have to look them up and no im not a geek im just a 15 year old who likes venom and is thinkin of ways that they should make the movie and did a little research and found a whole lot that they could use lol

dominic babcock

first of all i love venom and they definitely should make a movie about him and im pretty sure that they wouldn't make it like crappy because it would really make all of the venom fans like really mad so im pretty sure that they would make it just right and they should definitely put carnage in it to and like use the comics to make it right because like the way that carnage is made and ya they should just definitely make a venom movie

venom rocks

John "Kahless" Taylor

In the Spidey world, there are a plethera of villians that Venom and the Thunderbolts could fight: Rhino, Electro, Mysterio, etc..., and Carnage has already been mentioned. He could even go against the Hulk or Juggernaut, but he would need all the Thunderbolts to help for these 2 guys.

I really don't think there is anyway to detach this from the Spidey vehicle.

Andy

I think having Carnage as a villian would work very well. Actually, it is probably the ONLY villian that they can use that would work in this movie. Unless they crossover a villian from another series, like Magneto or Dr. Doom. That would seem just wrong, though.

Krodness

Yes it does! I've gotta get outside more often. Sheesh.

steve adams

Yeah Krodness good info.
That explains the suit/Carnage wears is red.

Krodness

No, Eddie Brock was in prison and it was assumed his symbiote suit was destroyed, but then he broke out (with the help of Cletus Kasidy) and some of it was left behind. That's when Cletus came into contact with it. What's interesting about Carnage is that the symbiote is fused into his blood stream, so it can be destroyed externally, but then for it to come back all he has to do is cut himself and poof...Carnage is back. Carnage is less vulnerable to ultrasonic noise (like Venom is) but very vulnerable to heat.

steve adams

Krodness wasn't Carnage a result of Venoms death?

I thought Carnage was the next incarnation of the suit.
^
I'm prob wrong on this??

steve adams

John, you havnt seen nothin yet.
Wait til KEL gets back on his feet.

Jo'Chu!

Krodness

I think the biggest threat to Venom is Carnage. He's not as strong as Venom, but he's much more savage and a very crazy disturbed individual. Eddie Brock is also disturbed, due to his massive amount of hate, but Carnage will snap and kill everyone and everything. As far as adapting that to a movie that has nothing to do with Spider-man, it would be tough, but hopefully the non-striking writers would be able to pull it off...as long as it's not the ones that wrote the Catwoman Spin off.

FlameStrike

I don't know, I never followed the Venom titles, so I don't know who his main enemies were. I'm sure those who know more about his series could figure something out though.

steve adams

Questions.
^
Who is going to do battle with Venom?
He's basically a bad-superhero-villain...
^
How will they detach the arc from the Spider-man films?
^
Seems kinda wishy washy too me.

Andy

I also think the idea of a Venom movie is a good one-as long as it is done in the dark, violent manner that is Venom. If they make him a kiddie friendly Godzilla type of character we should all march down to the studio and burn it down.(j/k)

I think there is plenty of room in the superhero comic movie realm for adult themed movies (NO, NOT with Jenna Jameson! LOL), but more like Punisher or even Batman Begins. If parents don't like it, TOUGH.

John "Kahless" Taylor

Wow, I'm impressed! The geek-o-meter on this forum is off the scale. :o)

Krodness

lol No problem on sentence structure. I got the idea, and yes, a 2099 movie would be freaking awesome. I loved Spider-man 2099 and Doom 2099 was a great great comic. Hulk 2099 was pretty good, but he seemed too much a mirror image of Pitt (from Image Comics), who is awesome too. Pitt first appeared in Youngblood #5 in February 1993, and Hulk 2099 first appeared in his own first issue that came out September of 1993. Coincidence? Hmmm.....

Adrian

Sorry for the horrible sentence structure, guys. Need to proofread alittle better.

Adrian

Good summary Krodness and Vic. Hmm, speaking of 2099 series of characters, wouldn't it be nice to see Marvel do an animated movie about that does heros. Loved 2099's Spiderman, Hulk, Punisher, Doom and X-men.

Krodness

Right. Spidey got the suit in space, but the suit was trying to permanently bond with him. The suit was removed by Reed Richards with a sonic blast and it was contained, but it broke free, snuck back into Spidy's apartment disguising itself as his red and blue suit, which bonded with him again. The suit was driving him mad so he went to Our Lady of Saints Church to see if the bell would destroy the suit like Richard's Sonic blast had stunned it. The noise from the bell was doing more damage to Parker than to the suit, so the suit sacrificed itself to save Spidey, and it crawled away to die, down into the church, where Eddie Brock was praying for forgiveness on the suicide he was about to commit. The suit was attracted to his strong emotions, they bonded, Brock's emotions and strong hate for Spider-man drove the suit to hate spider-man as well, and the rest is history.