'Venom' Also Being Done By 'Mr. Baseball' Writer
Providing an ominous reminder that, oh yeah, a Venom movie is still in the works, Variety is reporting that Gary Ross, the man recently charged with writing a new draft of the equally inauspicious Spider-Man 4 (and writer of an odd collection of mixed results, including Big, Pleasantville, Mr. Baseball, and Dave), has been hired to write an antihero take on the shiny, ebon villain:
Venom, an archenemy of the webslinger in the Marvel Comics series, will be transformed into an antihero who becomes a defender of the innocent.In "Spider-Man 3," Venom was played by Topher Grace, who started out as Eddie Brock, Peter Parker's newspaper rival. Infected by an alien organism that grafted itself to his skin, Brock had superpowers and strength superior to Spider-Man's.
Grace, who just signed on to star in "Robert Rodriguez's Predators" at Fox, is not considered likely to reprise, as the spinoff will start from the drawing board.
So we'll have possible continuity between Spider-Man 4 and Venom, but we're just going to completely disregard all the black-suit-Spidey/Venom set-up from Spider-Man 3?
Actually, that's a pretty solid plan. Carry on.