Venom’s Creator Wants Him Creepier in a Solo Flick

Posted by Ashley Demma (ashley@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 7, 2008

Venom Amidst the crap that was Spider-Man 3 (singing, dancing, emo angst) there was the glory of evil villain Venom. Played by That 70’s Show’s Topher Grace, Venom was pretty much a bad-ass. Fans’ biggest complaint with Venom, however, was his lack of on-screen time. Grace did a fine job bringing the monster to life, and the visual effects used to create Venom were fantastic. The teeth especially scared the hell out of me.

Now Todd McFarlane wants Venom to be creepier than ever for a possible spin-off movie. McFarlane is one of the artists who created Venom for the Amazing Spider-Man comics. And while he wants to be true to the character, McFarlane explained to IGN that understands not to go too far:

“He should be creepier than he was in Spider-Man 3. You don’t want to scare the kids, because the kids love the character, but I think you could add a little bit of a creep factor.”

And on debating the idea of a spin-off movie when past films have been disasters (Catwoman, Scorpion King), McFarlane had this to say:

“The reason [villains are] so cool as a bad guy is because they’re bad. And as soon as you try to give too much humanity to them, then you go, ‘No! Now they’re not as good as a bad guy because you’re trying to redeem them’.”

While I seriously doubt Venom could ever be anything but a maniacal, space-demon, super-villain… I think some deeper back-story on the character could be useful in plot development.

Do you think a Venom spin-off movie would be cool?

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Cole Abaius

That's great news. They'll make him as creepy as possible, and he'll still be a drooling mess of uninteresting.

J Macgon

i hate hollywood

J Macgon

refinement: i hate hollywood producers

Sahil Desai

One of the most exciting and I think, compelling story lines that came to mind when they first announced that venom would be in spider-man 3, was the prospect of eventually leading into the revelation of "Carnage".

What I find fascinating is that unlike the revenge-driven Venom (who just hates spider-man), Carnage is a ruthless killer (obviously because of his host Cletus Cassidy who is an 11 times convicted murdereR). So then another interesting character, The Joker, comes to mind when looking at villians who have no endgame, they just want to cause chaos.

In the cartoons Carnage always was drawn more fierce, and uncontrollable. He was said to be way more powerful than both Venom and Spider-man combined!?!

So here's to hoping for a Venom pseudo-hero and a Cargage ultimate supervillian, because he would just that.

white slave jew

throw some tits in the movie and i will go see it!

Nevernude

i wonder what rating the movie will be going for..

Robert Fure

Here is how you make this movie awesome: Go back to the Venom "Tsunami" series and copy that style. While it ended up being a clone, it started out with the symbiote attacking an Arctic base, much like The Thing.

Make Venom a horror movie. He's still the bad guy and not the main focus, but he's a very prominent bad guy.

Goldmine.

mudywaters

It would be cool but Spiderman needs to be in it, somehow. A Venom horror movie is a good idea.

Troy

moar boobs in the rain plz.

Robert Fure

I think Troy is on to something here.

I like boobs. They look good when wet. Rain is wet. Hot damn!

Venom’s Creator Wants Him Creepier in a Solo Flick

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