Venom was previously adapted into live-action with Sam Raimi’s less than stellar Spider-Man 3, although he’s looking decidedly different in the new movie.
Superhero movies are everywhere, and now Sony is trying a new strategy by crafting a cinematic universe around the supporting characters of Spider-Man lore.
With the web crawler being apart of the behemoth MCU, the first of these movies is finally hitting theaters with Venom.
CinemaBlend’s Sean O’Connell recently spoke with director Venom Ruben Fleischer, where he explained the effort to make the character look as different from Topher Grace’s version as possible.