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The new Venom trailer is out, and while everyone is talking about Tom Hardy's latest new accent, I'm more concerned about the idea of a Venom movie.
And of course, I know that it's time to talk about it was back around The Amazing Spider-Man 2, when Sony tried to put up all the Sinister Six, but I'm I did exactly and no one listened and now we have a Venom movie.
For those of you who do not know who Venom is, he is the anti-Spider-Man – the result of a foreign symbiote who briefly linked with Peter Parker before to be dismissed for reasons of general harm, which then merged with his rival Eddie Brock, who was much more receptive to the interests of the symbiote in chaos and murder. The character was previously shown on screen by Topher Grace and a lot of black goo in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3, which no one likes to talk about these days.
Venom is a nasty Spider-Man, so the idea of building an entire movie around the character without an appearance of Spider-Man – who's doing Marvel sanctioned stuff these days, like ( say) appear in Avengers: Infinity War – seems a bit risky, right? But Sony, which has licensed the Spider-Man character set a decade before the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a glow in the eye of Kevin Feige, has long planned to develop Spidey spin-offs in order to retain this Licence. Superhero movies are a license to print money nowadays, and surely if you bring together half a dozen talented people and give them a decent visual effects budget, you'll have a return on your investment. I am much more intrigued by the casting of Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate in supportive roles, even though Slate is playing with someone who has a serious problem with bad pronunciation. And after Zombieland and Gangster Squad, it is safe to say that director Ruben Fleischer knows his way around a flashing sequence of action. It will probably be better than Suicide Squad. But … it's still a Venom movie. Without Spider-Man.
We are at a place of popular culture where every well loved (and not so loved) 90s, no matter how fragile, is rebooted or revived, so I guess it was inevitable. And Venom is probably a better place to start spin-off than Spidey's original Sony idea. (Really, Paul Giamatti looked so unhappy as the Rhino.)
Honestly, though? I am always surprised that we did not have an Alpha Flight movie first. Just the tax benefits of filming in Montreal should have made this project a reality, and I'm sure Xavier Dolan would be happy to lead it.
But I have already told you: nobody listens to me. [19659002] [email protected] | @normwilner
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