Venom

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

Okay can they wait till Venom is out before they start hiring people for any other spin-offs?

Seriously how many chickens do they wanna count?

meh

They already canned Silver and Black so...

Looking forward to hearing about how Jared Leto drinks the blood of his co-stars in order to help get into character.

• Jared Leto snarl

Edited by Mizerous on Jun 28th 2018 at 7:32:02 AM

Don't you mean plasma?

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

Will we get to hear Venom say "Fuck Spider-Man" to some criminals at any point in the movie? That's a line you need to have if you're going to be a mature and grounded superhero tale.

Jean Grey: Fuck Wolverine.

Well we do have one universe where she has.

Description of the footage:

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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

New trailer

Edited by windleopard on Jul 31st 2018 at 6:34:55 AM

That humor is pretty damn terrible.

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

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.

https://youtu.be/lhckuhUxcgA

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

Eddie 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.

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

I mean, Eddie Brock is mostly an anti-hero now isn't he? Spider-Man 3 portraying him as a douchebag isn't exactly correct.

Pretty sure Brock is regularly a douche even when he's acting like a anti-hero. As pointed out, the Spectacular cartoon was him at his "nicest" and as usual he started to go downhill around the pint the symbiote is introduced.