‘Chronicle’s’ Josh Trank Could Direct ‘Spider-Man’ Spin-Off Movie ‘Venom’
Before Sam Raimi’sSpider-Man 3was released, the one thing fans were most excited about was we’d finally get to seeVenomon the big screen. The character is arguably the most popular of Spider-Man’s villains and to potentially see his origins and battles with the web-slinger was unbelievably exciting. After the film was released, though, the sparse use of the character was listed as one of the its biggest disappointments.
Soon afterSpider-Man 3, Sony wised-up to the character’s popularity andbegan developing aVenomcentric moviewithHunger GamesdirectorGary Ross at the helm. It never panned out. But, with the newAmazing Spider-Manaround the corner and a hot new superhero director in town, the stars might just be aligning once again.
TheLos Angeles Timesreports Sony is in negotiations withChronicledirectorJosh Trankto helm a newVenommovie. There’s more after the jump.
According to theLA Times article, Sony refused to comment but their anonymous source said the script would not be the same one Ross was developing several years back.
While Josh Trank’sChroniclewasn’t an official comic book movie, it had better superhero action and characters than innumerable, big name comic book movies with much larger budgets. He was recentlyrumored to be rebootingtheFantastic Fourand while Trankall but deniedthat rumor, we’ll have to wait and see ifVenomis any more real.
For those who don’t know much about Venom, he’s a gooey, fluid like creature who has many of the same abilities as Spider-Man. In fact, he came to be because of Spider-Man found an alien black suit. But once Peter Parker figured out the alien suit was making him do bad things (i.e. – emo Spidey inSpider-Man 3) he discarded it, only to be picked up by Eddie Brock.
AVenommovie, in theory, sounds great but part of what makes the character so memorable is how evil he is. I’m not sure how you’d handle that at the heart of a movie but I trust that, if Trank takes the job, he’ll have an idea worth pursing.
