Venom | |
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Film information | |
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Release date(s) |
June 13, 2017 (cancelled) |
Music by | |
Screenplay by |
Alex Kurtzman (screenplay & story) |
Produced by |
Avi Arad |
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Succeeded by |
- "Rage is as encompassing as night and black as oil."
- ―Tagline
Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Venom, or simply Venom, is a cancelled 2017 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It was to be directed by Alex Kurtzman and written by Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Ed Solomon, and Jody Lambert, from a story by Kurtzman, Orci, Marc Webb (who also co-produced), and Scott Cooper, Josh Trank, and Robert D. Siegel. It would have starred Finn Wittrock and Alan Tudyk, co-starring Andrew Garfield and Felicity Jones and Laura Haddock.
It would have been the second spin-off in the Amazing Spider-Man film series and a follow-up to The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and The Sinister Six: Part 2. It would have introduced Venom and Carnage into the Amazing Spider-Man saga and how Spider-Man would deal with them. It was to be released on June 14, 2017. Plans for the film also include a sequel titled Venom: Carnage.
The finalized version of the film would be released on October 5th, 2018, starring Tom Hardy as the eponymous character and directed by Ruben Fleischer, with no visible connections to the Amazing Spider-Man setting.
Synopsis[]
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Crew[]
- Directed by: Alex Kurtzman
- Screenplay by: Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & Ed Solomon and Jody Lambert
- Story by: Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & Ed Solomon & Scott Cooper & Marc Webb & Josh Trank and Robert D. Siegel
- Produced by: Matthew Tolmach p.g.a & Avi Arad p.g.a & Amy Pascal & Marc Webb & Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Hannah Minghalla and Rachel O'Conner
- Based on: Venom by Roger Stern & Tom DeFalco & Roy Thomas & Jim Shooter & Mick Zeck & Todd McFarlane and David Michelinie / Spider-Man by Stan Lee & Steve Dikto
- Cinematography by: Florian Hoffmeister & Ben Seresin
- Edited by: Pietro Scalia & Josh Schaeffer
- Music by: Marco Beltrami & Fernando Velázquez
- Casting by: Cody Rannutt
- Production design: Tim Grimes
- Art director: Cheryl Marion
- Costume designer: Abby O'Sullivan & Kasia Walicka Maimone
- Executive producers: Johnathon Wyvern & Avi Arad & Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Marc Webb & Todd McFarlane & David Michelinie and Stan Lee & Jim Shooter
Intended Cast[]
- Finn Wittrock as Eddie Brock/Venom
- Alan Tudyk as Cletus Kasady/Carnage
- Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Felicity Jones as Felicia Hardy/Black Cat
- J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
- Denzel Washington as Robbie Robertson
- Zooey Deschanel as Betty Brant
- Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn (cameo)
- Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curt Connors (cameo)
- Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy/Carnage
- Christoph Waltz as Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus (cameo)
- Zachary Quinto as Quentin Beck/Mysterio (cameo)
- Campbell Scott as Dr. Richard Parker
- Embeth Davidtz as Mary Parker (flashback)
- Chris Cooper as Norman Osborn/Goblin King (flashback)
- To be confirmed actor as Anne Weying
Trivia[]
- The film is known for having a very drawn out and difficult production history. Plans for a Venom film were first underway when New Line Cinema bought the film rights in 1995, and hired David S. Goyer as scriptwriter. Much like the released film, Goyer's script excluded Spider-Man entirely (as New Line Cinema didn't have the rights to him), and instead had the symbiote originate from a planet of alien spiders and other symbiotes. Eddy Brock and Cletus Kasady grew up together in an orphanage Kasady burned down and both have a hatred of each other in present day. In present day, Kasady is apprehended by the police with help from Brock, but Brock is confronted by followers of Kasady and is saved by the Venom symbiote, who arrived bonded to an alien spider. Using the spider's DNA, the symbiote bonded to Eddie and they become Venom. Meanwhile, a stronger symbiote called a "Blood Hunter" interrupts Kasady's public execution and bonds with him to become Carnage.
- Goyer's treatment was rejected and eventually the film rights for Venom were obtained by Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures. Venom would appear in Spider-Man 3 (2007), the final film of the previous film series by Sam Raimi, who ironically enough didn't like Venom and didn't want to include him, due to his supposed "lack of humanity" but relented at Avi Arad's insistence at Venom's immense popularity. Topher Grace, of That '70's Show fame, was cast as Eddie Brock/Venom as one of the three villains of the film.
- Finn Wittrock and Alan Tudyk were the frontrunners for both Eddie Brock and Cletus Kasady respectively. In the released version by Sony in October 2018, Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson were selected instead as Brock and Kasady.
- Josh Trank, who directed Chronicle (2012), was approached to direct the film, but was instead hired by 20th Century Fox to direct the rebooted Fantastic Four (2015). He'd even written a script treatment with his mentor Robert D. Siegel, but was rejected by Sony and Columbia. However, Trank and Siegel would retain story credits, as at least a portion of aspects from their treatment was used.
- It was said a sequel to this movie would have focused on Carnage as the villainous main character, with Venom and Spider-Man teaming up, joined by Black Cat and Future Spider-Man, against him, borrowing elements from the Maximum Carnage storyline from the comics.