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Spider-Man 4 Cancelled! [Updated]

Rob Keyes — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:43:13 +0000

Breaking News: Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are out of Spider-Man 4! Sony moving forward with Franchise reboot.

Well, I kind of saw this coming. Spider-Man 4 with its issues over villains, Sony vs. Raimi disputes and delays is now confirmed dead.

Many of our readers agreed with what I said in our last post on the confirmed delay of Spider-Man 4 in that perhaps Raimi and Sony should simply part ways and they can take the franchise in another direction or start from scratch.

Now it is confirmed from Nikki Finke and Mike Fleming at Deadline Hollywood that the cast and director have pulled out entirely and Sony will instead go the route of the reboot with Jamie Vanderbilt’s script.

This was bound to happen after the mess of Spider-Man 3 and I’m a ...

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Confirmed: Spider-Man 4 Delayed [Updated]

Rob Keyes — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:34:32 +0000

My Spidey sense is telling me there’s a chance we won’t be getting a quality film in Spider-Man 4. How can we after what we saw from Spider-Man 3 which was plagued with too many characters, sub-par writing and apparent studio interference which forced a major character into a movie where he didn’t belong, right?

Well, things were looking good for the fourth installment however, where director Sam Raimi would again helm, promising that this time he would be in “full control” of the movie unlike last time around. When he said that, he should have clarified that he wouldn’t actually have much control at all… because he doesn’t.

Just prior to the holidays, our friends at IESB had the exclusive scoop on the startling news that there are issues behind the scenes involving ...

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Will Sam Raimi Direct Spider-Man 5 & 6?

Rob Keyes — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:38:53 +0000

It’s been a big week for Sony’s Columbia Pictures and fans of the Spider-Man franchise. A mere week ago we found that the studio has selected Gary Ross to direct and rewrite the upcoming Venom solo film. Ross has a long history with the studio and actor Tobey Maguire and he’s currently involved with the script of Spider-Man 4. While we later heard that Venom might be far off with Ross also being tipped to helm the Spielberg-less Matt Helm remake, there’s no slowing the Spidey franchise one way or another.

On the Peter Parker side of things, Raimi revealed a few days back that they’re planning for an early March start of production for Spider-Man 4 to meet their summer kick-off release date in 2011. That’s not all however, as more recently we ...

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Venom Delayed By Matt Helm?

Rob Keyes — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:15:51 +0000

The folks over at The Playlist have an interesting exclusive on a topic that’s been getting several headlines this week. According to their inside source, Gary Ross, the man who was just announced to write and possibly direct the Venom spinoff will not be working on that project next.

Instead, Ross will first be taking over the Matt Helm project from Steven Spielberg and it sounds like the Venom project is quite a ways off, despite earlier reports that had him starting on it after Spider-Man 4.

Matt Helm was a James Bond-esque franchise starring Dean Martin back in the 1960s and they’ve been trying to get a remake off the ground for a while with a messy development history in recent years. There was also a TV series in the 1970s also based ...

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Sam Raimi Discusses Spider-Man 4 Villains

Rob Keyes — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:46:18 +0000

Spider-Man 4 has been receiving plenty of buzz in recent times with announcements and confirmations of it going into production next year for a 2011 release. On top of that, we’ve had countless reports and speculation about what storylines it may follow, the start of development for Spider-Man 5 & 6, and discussions of what villains will be the focus of the fourth installment in the super successful superhero franchise.

MTV spoke with Sam Raimi and got the director to discuss a bit about the villains of Spider-Man 4 and the results of a fan poll they ran on the site which saw The Lizard and Carnage come out on top as the most desired villains, with the highest percentages from an unknown number of votes.

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Venom Finds A Director?

Rob Keyes — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:31:57 +0000

Variety reporter Mike Fleming is reporting that Columbia Pictures is in talks with Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) to direct and rewrite the upcoming Venom solo film. Ross’ name is not new to Sony and their Spider-Man-related flicks however, as back in July he was brought in to make rewrites on the Spider-Man 4 script.

Ross is an easy choice for Columbia Pictures because of his growing relationship with Sony (Sony Pictures Entertainment owns Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group) which includes his directing of a Lance Armstrong cycling film and his work on the in-development Tokyo Suckerpunch. Combined with his longstanding relationship with Tobey Maguire that includes writing and directing him twice in the films listed above. They’ll be pairing as Actor-Director for a third go with The Crusaders.

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Venom Updates: How Will It Tie Into Spider-Man Franchise?

Rob Keyes — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:55:00 +0000

SCI FI Wire had an exclusive interview with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the writers behind next month’s Zombieland flick (which looks great!) and they spoke about that other big project they’ve been working on: the script for the Venom solo film.

The last we heard on the Venom project from the writers was from back in April when they couldn’t comment on whether or not this incarnation of Venom would be the same as/related to the wasted version we saw in the highly disappointing Spider-Man 3.

In the interview, Reese and Wernick take questions on the status of the project and when the film could be in production.

So, What’s the latest on their scripts?

“We’ve written two drafts of Venom, and the studio has it, and they’re pushing forward in whatever ways they push ...

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Does Spider-Man 4′s Next Rewrite Mean We Should Be Worried?

Rob Keyes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:14:19 +0000

News has surfaced that Gary Ross, writer of such films including Seabiscuit, The Tale of Despereaux, Dave and Lassie in the past and writer/director of some others (that we’ll discuss later), is being brought in to re-write the script of Spider-Man 4.

What does this mean for the movie?

On one side, Ross was likely chosen because of his growing relationship with Sony which includes his directing of a Lance Armstrong cycling film and his work on the in-development Tokyo Suckerpunch.

On the other side, Spider-Man 4’s script is getting yet another rewrite meaning there are major issues with it (probably due to what happened in Spider-Man 3). This leaves me wondering what direction the film will take after the last movie and how, or if, it will lead at all into the Venom spinoff movie we’ve heard ...

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New Details On the ‘Venom’ Script

Kofi Outlaw — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:33:28 +0000

Superhero Hype recently caught up with Rhett Resse and Paul Wernick, the two screenwriters who penned a first draft of the Venom spin-off for Sony Pictures. The resulting discussion yielded a few choice tidbits about how the screenwriters view Venom, and what Sony and Marvel may be envisioning for the project.

The big question I know is on Venom fans’ minds: will we be getting the crappy Spider-Man 3 Venom? Or will the spin-off finally get the character right?

I won’t jerk you around and keep you wondering: Neither Resse nor Wernick could talk about whether or not the Venom we get in the spin-off will be at all connected to the (hopefully dead) version of the character that appeared in Spider-Man 3. I know it’s a big point of contention for any REAL Venom ...

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Creator Doesn’t Think Venom Can Carry A Movie

Vic Holtreman — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:44:41 +0000

As part of the Spider-Man 4/5 story that just broke, Deadline Hollywood also reported that Sony is moving forward with a movie about Venom, one of the villains in Spider-Man 3. Without giving specifics, the word is that a pair of screenwriters have been hired to start work on the script.

The interesting thing is that Todd MacFarlane, one of the creators of the character, doesn’t think Venom can work very well as the “hero” of a movie.

In early August Todd MacFarlane spoke to Newsarama.com about the possibility of a Venom spin-off movie. He realizes that the character can’t be too scary due to the PG/PG-13 target for superhero movies, but that even within those parameters he should be made creepier than he was in Spider-Man 3:

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Finally, Some Venom Movie News

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:23:08 +0000

The Hollywood Reporter has floated news that there is finally some movement on the long awaited (by fanboys) Venom movie.

The last time there was any news of note was back in February of this year that Sony had met with some “A-list writers” to pen a Venom screenplay. It seems that the main guy on that list was Jacob Estes, who has wrtten Nearing Grace and Mean Creek.

Yeah, I haven’t heard of either of those either, but that’s ok, because he’s out and someone else will be coming in to write the script.

Apparently Topher Grace (who portrayed Venom in Spider-Man 3) does NOT have a “lock” on the role, as the studio doesn’t necessarily think he can carry a picture as the star.

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Is Venom Really Getting His Own Movie?

Vic Holtreman — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:00:17 +0000

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.

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Avi Arad Talks Spider-Man 4 And… Venom?

Vic Holtreman — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:51:08 +0000

[UPDATE: Is the Venom Movie Moving Finally Moving Forward?]

Avi Arad recently sat down with Garth of DarkHorizons.com to discuss his involvement in the upcoming movie Bratz (which no, I will NOT be covering here on Screen Rant!) and some Marvel projects came up in the discussion.

In particular it seems that things are moving forward, albeit at an early stage, for Spider-Man 4. At this point it’s just at the discussion level with Sony Pictures. What was a surprise for me was the fact that there is a Venom movie in development! I had not heard this previously.

Avi said that things are coming along “awesome” regarding the Venom movie, but was tight-lipped regarding casting or any other details.

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Final Spider-Man 3 Venom-centric Trailer

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:39:23 +0000

So you’ve probably already heard that the new (and final) Spider-Man 3 trailer is online. Of course if you were one of the folks who’ve seen 300 then you’ve already seen this trailer on a big, giant screen.

This trailer concentrates a lot more on Venom than previous footage has and seems to show that Venom is indeed the main antagonist in the film. It seems like Harry and Sandman are more like the triggers for Venom gaining power than anything else.

I had trouble accessing the trailer over at the site Comcast created for the film because I use Firefox instead of IE as my browser. So until someone asks me to take it down or it brings my server to it’s knees I’m making it available here. I figure that with them charging me over $60 a month for ...

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Looks Like Venom Is From Outer Space

Vic Holtreman — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:09:31 +0000

There are some new photos from Spider-Man 3 over at Joblo.com including the one above. If you ask me this image settles the question of whether in the movie Venom will be from outer space. That’s Peter Parker’s moped in the foreground (as if you didn’t know).

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Spider-Man 3: Venom Has Black Webbing

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:57:29 +0000

So Venom has black webbing? Here’s a new pic showing Spiderman snagged by the long-tongued, big-fanged dude. Sadly I must admit that I have never read an issue of Spiderman that had Venom in it as a villain (I know! Can you believe it?). So can anyone tell me, does the uber-evil villain in black have black webbing in the comic book?

You can find the original image at the link below. I tweaked it for a clearer look at Venom.

Source: ComicBookMovie

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Big Honking Spiderman 3 Preview

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:02:43 +0000

Update: You can now see the preview right here!

For the next 24 hours only you can go to NBC.com and catch a seven minute preview of Spiderman 3. Personally I fast forwarded through the first half because what I wanted to see was some ACTION.

I hate to admit it, but although I found James Franco’s portrayal of Harry Osborne kind of weepy in the first couple of films, his scenes in the preview as (correct me if I’m wrong) Hobgoblin are really excellent. He seems absolutely ferocious and it works great. And gone is that silly Power Rangers version of the costume, replaced with a more Ninja-like outfit.

Here are a few more images from the preview:

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Spiderman 3: Clear Look At Venom!

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:48:37 +0000

A while back I had a screen cap of what venom looked like from the Spiderman 3 trailer and I did my best to clean it up to make it clear. Well Sideshow Collectibles, which sells really quality movie-related toys and collectibles has for an articulated Venom figure from Spiderman 3.

If you don’t mind seeing what Venom is going to look like in clear detail (consider yourself warned!), go ahead and click on the thumbnails below for a much larger view.

Looks like he will be pretty faithful to the comic book. Usually Sideshow Toys items are proportioned just as they appear in movies and are extremely accurate representations.

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Brand New (Awesome!) Spiderman 3 Trailer

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:16:26 +0000

Ifilm is hosting a hot off the press, brand new Spiderman 3 trailer. It’s over 2 minutes long and is a genuine trailer (as opposed to a teaser).

Looks freakin’ excellent to me and right up there with the first two Spiderman movies. We get plenty of looks at Sandman (who was cast PERFECTLY) as well as more Venom background. I’m still concerned that they may be trying to squeeze in too much with three bad guys… well, actually it looks like the way they’re portraying Venom he’s not an actual character, but we’ll have to see.

On the flip side what I did like was seeing the Peter is finally going to tell Harry that he didn’t kill his father. Of course that doesn’t mean that Harry will believe it.

Click here to see it in a variety of video formats.

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Spiderman 3 Trailer

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:44:56 +0000

Update: Click here for the new Spiderman 3 trailer released November 2006.

It’s out and it’s very cool and if there was any doubt Venom is in it, doubt no more.

Pretty sweet if you ask me, with the same level of integrity as the previous two films.

Click here for a variety of Quicktime formats.

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