Brain Assassin

Venom by kg21 (deviantART)

SCI FI Wire talked to Paul Wer­nick who co-​​wrote the script for the Spider-​​Man spin-​​off Venom with Rhett Reese and it looks like Sony is going for­ward with the project. Accord­ing to Wer­nick “the project is still mov­ing for­ward and the writ­ing team has turned the script in to the suits at Sony”. Appar­ently, the stu­dio has two drafts of Venom to con­sider and is try­ing to fig­ure out its next step. It seems unlikely that Venom will hap­pen before Spider-​​Man 4, which the lat­est rumors have shoot­ing  in early 2010. Wer­nick was tight-​​lipped when asked about a pos­si­ble rela­tion­ship between the two movies.

I’d love to see a Venom movie, that’s for sure! And I know a bunch of peo­ple who’d sell their moth­ers to do so too. It will be inter­est­ing to see whether the film will ignore what’s hap­pened in Spider-​​Man 3 or starts fresh if they decide to go through with the project. I still hate the fact that Venom didn’t get enough screen-​​time in the third install­ment of the Spidey franchise.