Sony Pictures Is Moving Forward With Their VENOM Film and It Has a Release Date
Remember that Venom film that Sony Pictures was working on when The Amazing Spider-Man franchise was still a thing? Well, the studio is finally moving forward with it, and they plan to release it in theaters on October 5th, 2018.
According to the report, Alex Kurtzman, the writer of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and director of Universal Pictures' upcoming reboot of The Mummy, will be directing Venom. He was previously attached to the project last year.
The last we heard, Dante Harper (Edge of Tomorrow) was writing the script and the movie was being envisioned “as a franchise apart from and unrelated to the upcoming Spider-Man movie in the works with actor Tom Holland."
I doubt this movie will be connected to the MCU. This is probably just going to be a standalone franchise that they hope to build.
Venom was introduced to the Marvel Comics universe in 1988, and it was created by writer David Michelinie and artists Todd McFarlane and Mike Zeck. Venom is an alien symbiote that requires a human host to survive. The alien endows its human host with superpowers. During his run in the comics the character has been a villain who eventually turned into an antihero.
I can't help but think that Kurtzman and the studio will run with the antihero version of the character for the film. There's also an interesting fan theory that popped up on Reddit that Sony Picture's upcoming sci-fi film Life is actually a symbiote/Venom origin story, which would prove to be really interesting! It's just a fan theory, though, and I doubt the two are connected.