From darkhorizons, IESB reports that Marvel Studios is gearing up for a film spin-off featuring "Spider-Man" villain Venom, and has already met with "several A-list writers" about the project.
The studio signed an interim agreement with the WGA the other week allowing them to continue developing scripts for projects, and retains the rights to the character despite his appearance in Sony's highly profitable but critically mixed "Spider-Man 3".
No word if actor Topher Grace will reprise his role of if Sam Raimi will be involved though both are unlikely.
8 comments:
Amazing. The goofy expression in that picture managed to capture the essence Spiderman 3's problems.
Yeah Rami's decision to constantly have the characters remove their masks to humanize them really ruined this franchise for me (also the terrible CG). I only liked the second one.
Agreed agreed! I don't think the CG was bad after the first one, but that third movie was more than a train wreck... it was like a train wreck, plane crash and earthquake all centered on the same pancake house. I thought about reviewing it when I saw it but all I could think to put on paper was a big scribble.
Needless to say, not amped about the spin-off. What's with the villain-based movie, anyway? Didn't Catwoman teach anyone anything?
Sandman was cool but yuck, a whole slew of bad memories came flooding back after that Venom pic. Remember the scene when Harry and Mary Jane were making breakfast?
Or Peter did the whole "Saturday Night Fever" thing?
And don't you just loathe Aunt May? What a wretched old crotch, laying the guilt trip on Peter at every available opportunity.
OCTO: so brilliantly funny (and so "you") I don't even know where to begin. The pancake house is the cherry on top. (Or maybe the scribble.)
JOHNNY: Isn't that the whole point of Aunt May? She's a walking guilt trip. That's the whole point of the character, going back to 1963. It's the famous Stan Lee "angst" that made the SIlver Age of comics possible! (But the movie version is annoying, I agree.)
It's funny how Spider-Man veered so completely off track and Batman (which started out in Froot-Loops-land) has moved front and center like this.
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