Horror-themed comics are all the rage, and one of Marvel’s most popular antiheroes is next to get the animated treatment. […]
Horror-themed comics are all the rage, and one of Marvel’s most popular antiheroes is next to get the animated treatment.
After the monster success of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Sony Pictures Animation is turning its attention to one of Spider-Man’s greatest archnemeses.
THR reports that the studio has hired Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the duo behind last year’s surprise horror hit Final Destination: Bloodlines, to direct and produce an animated Venom feature film.
Tom Hardy is understood to be involved in some capacity as well. It is unclear whether he would produce or even return to voice Venom as well after starring in the studio’s recent trio of live-action movies as Eddie Brock, the human who bonds with the black oozy alien symbiote.
Things are very early right now, as no writer is attached to the project, although Sony’s animation arm, Sony Pictures Animation, is opening up a writers’ room to develop a script or take.
THR recalls: “Venom, created by writer Bill Michelinie and artist Todd McFarlane, was famously introduced as a villain in 1988’s Amazing Spider-Man No. 298-300, and quickly became a fan-favorite as well as one of his arch-nemeses. He got his first solo comic in 1993. The character then made his big-screen debut in Sam Raimi’s Amazing Spider-Man 3, played by Topher Grace.
“Released in 2018, Venom, toplined by Hardy, scored an astounding $856 million worldwide, opening Sony’s eyes to the popularity of the character in the height of the comic book movie boom. However, the franchise took a slow downward slope, financially and creatively, with 2021’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage ($506.8 million) and then Venom: The Last Dance $478.9 million in 2024.”
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