Morbius is a weird choice. At least Venom and Black Cat(from Silver and Black) are characters the general audience would probably be aware of. Who the hell gives a shit about Morbius?
edit: I just had a thought. Venom, Black Cat, and Morbius were some of the people involved in Maximum Carnage. I wonder if Sony was trying to work towards that originally. Of course that might be giving them too much credit.
Edited by Kostya on Jun 28th 2018 at 10:26:56 AM
One of the villains is confirmed to be
Riot
, another of the symbiotes.
Edited by comicwriter on Jul 20th 2018 at 9:30:24 AM
Venom is..... sigh.... "grounded"
A movie about a space parasite that makes its host gain a desire to eat brains is grounded.
How many post X-Men superhero movies are there? Like there's a fine line between good over the topness and Catwoman
Carlton Drake rules that human beings are disposable. Man and symbiote merging is the future. He tests one on a man who is bent out of shape violently. Eddie is tested later. As a result, he brutally beats men in his apartment with Venom’s help. His motorcycle is sandwiched by cars but Venom holds them off.
Venom tells Eddie his previous life is over. Eddie doesn’t want to just hurt people. Venom emerges and talks to Eddie face to face. After Eddie’s body is bent and broken, Venom heals him and stands 10 feet tall. He holds a man up and licks his face.
Drake is proud of his creation. Action scenes flash by. Eddie starts to come around on the power. His gal seems concerned about that. A woman throws spikes out of her back and into civilians at a market.
Venom’s arms turn into giant axes and he wipes out a slew of enemies. More action scenes. Venom fights Drake’s symbiote counterpart. Venom threatens to eat a man’s face off of his head who is bothering the woman in the convenience store. When he asks “What the hell are you,” half the face disappears and Eddie and Venom say, “We are Venom.” Then, he eats his head. Eddie emerges and says goodnight to the woman.
Venom tells Eddie his previous life is over. Eddie doesn’t want to just hurt people. Venom emerges and talks to Eddie face to face. After Eddie’s body is bent and broken, Venom heals him and stands 10 feet tall. He holds a man up and licks his face.
...
So it sounds like they got the feel of the character right but, due to Spider-Man being outside of this movie's licensing rights, they had to fart together a backstory. Apparently this Carlton Drake
guy actually exists.
We're back to the isolated superhero films of old, except it's a supervillain film and rather than have cheeky nods to comic books, like Aunt May telling Peter he's "not Superman", movies aren't allowed to make any references whatsoever.
But at least we have a Venom and not a discount CGI monster played by Topher Grace.
Edited by Soble on Jul 21st 2018 at 5:51:15 AM
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!Yeah, this trailer made me less enthused about the film.
First, because it's apparent that we're using the version of Venom popular in adaptations where Eddie Brock is a great guy! Just, like, the greatest! He's a wonderful human being who never did anything wrong or wanted to hurt anyone. Honest, hard working, just a swell guy all around. But then he became the victim of an evil sludge of evil, made from pure concentrated evil, that forced him to do evil.
Say what you will about Topher Grace's portrayal but at least his movie remembered that Eddie Brock is a shithead in equal measure to the angry and dejected symbiote.
Also.
Like.
I always thought that the mask was making Bane unintelligible in "The Dark Knight Rises". I never realized that's actually what Tom Hardy sounds like. That accent is so thick I can barely make out half of what he's saying.
This trailer left me kinda missing Spider-Man 3.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 31st 2018 at 8:12:37 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Actually, the only other adaptation that's played it like this is Spectacular Spider-Man. Every other version plays it like Spider-Man 3 to an extent. If anything, Eddie being depicted as a nice guy is the exception not the norm.
And frankly, I feel the symbiote gets a bit more sympathy than it deserves from readers at times.
> This trailer left me kinda missing Spider-Man 3.
But yeah,my earlier concerns over the voice they were using weren't unfounded since I've seen similar complaints on other sites like Reddit
only thing that concerns me that the symbiotes aren't being introduced in the MCU spiderman films
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverEddie being a goody two-shoes was something I expected from the first trailer, so I'm not surprised this trailer empathizes it even more. He's basically discount Bruce Banner now.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Hmm... seems like they're going for an adaptation of Venom: Lethal Protector (i.e., Anti-Hero Venom vs a corporation that managed to mass produce the symbiote for their Super-Soldier program).
That last scene of the trailer certainly reminded me of the writing of comic books of the nineties. That's not a good thing. It's trying to be badass, but comes across as the writers trying way too hard to prove their hero is like, dark maaaan!
I also realized the shot of Venom knocking over a bunch of computers was used in the teaser. Except in the teaser, they clearly did not have the finished effects. So it looked like they were knocked over by a strong gust of wind or a psychic attack or something. I think that's a confirmation that Sony rushed the first teaser out before they even had a complete effect shot for Venom.
Edited by chasemaddigan on Jul 31st 2018 at 11:54:01 AM

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jared-leto-star-spider-man-190009310.html
Jared Leto is set to star in Spidey Spin-off 'Morbius'.
Good Gad, ya'll