Venom Movie Takes Shape But Still A Bit Formless

Posted by Kevin Gustafson (kgustafson@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 9, 2009

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From beneath the muck of Hollywood the Venom movie arises. But the comic-book villain hasn’t broken the surface quite yet. Film School Rejects learned that Coming Soon probed writers Rhett Reese’s and Paul Wernick’s brains on the set of their upcoming horror-comedy Zombieland, starring Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, and Abigail Breslin. They’re pumped to be writing the screenplay and have submitted a draft to Sony and Marvel. The two companies are approaching the Venom story seriously imposing what Wernick dubs the “47 rules.”

For fans, that could be a good thing or a bad thing. We’ll have to hunker down and wait to find out. A spin-off of Spiderman 3, the film joins X-Men Origins: Wolverine as a title based on a huge franchise that has recently been starving for exciting plotlines. I hope the Venom character gets a more fitting introduction than he received in Spiderman 3. So I ask you, dear readers, what “rules” do you have for the Venom script?

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McQueer

Reboot, ignore what happened in Spidey three, kick Topher to the curb.

Cover the fact that Venom views himself as the good guy, but is the Mr. Hyde to Spidey's Dr. Jeckyl.

Make Venom unable to turn back into a human.

Don't make the story about terrorism in any way.

Make Carnage the bad guy, because he is much more evil than venom ever was.

Make Venom large, he was about the same size as spidey in Spidey 3 and that's ridiculous, he's supposed to weigh about 600 pounds because Eddie was a shitload beefier than Parker and wanted to be even bigger then he was, the symbiote would enable this wish.

eugene

rule #1: immediately stop production on this sure-to-be awful movie.

Richard.C

i agree with you Eugene this movie has a bad vibe going it dosent seem like it should be done i mean how is this going to be done a bad guy movie it doesnt seem right especially when spiderman is'nt going to be in it. I dont know it seems confusing and wrong like an unholy thing to all fans so i dont think this will ever happen no matter how much everyone wants it

McQueer

And that comment left me look quite as geeky as I truly am.

JMoney

1. No Eric from That '70s show.

2. No emo anything.

3. No dance numbers.

Matt

1 Sit down and think about what a shitty movie Spidey 3 was
2 Try to avoid this
3 No Dancing
4 Dont make it a spin off. A Spin off would acknowledge Spider-Man 3s existence. Unacceptable.
5 Think about rule #3 really closely. Try to figure out why this wouldnt work

Jason

it would be really cool to talk about where the symbiot came from talk about the orgin, where in space did it come from, and how it got to earth. Then lead it back to Eddie Brock.

Big Rob

Venom is a complex character and deserves to acknowledged. so 1) No Topher Grace 2) Tell the story from Eddie Brocks and The symbiotes eyes. 3) If you do carnage for GODS SAKE start off the movie in a Insane Asylum cause you can tie it together well from a story board perspective.

mark

What about having it start off with eddie brock in prison next to kassidy
when the symbiote comes back for brock and some sticks with kassidy for the creation of carnage
and then the movies moves on from there?
this way it stays true to the origins of carnage and doesn't completely start from scratch for venom
it doesn't completely ignore that crap people saw in spidey 3 (which was probably one of the rules they were talking about with the script)
but it can also not mention it so the people that know the venom character can have their true origin

Brian Rodden

Venom is a great character. Don't waste him.

Venom Movie Takes Shape But Still A Bit Formless

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