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[Professor Love]

Screenwriters Talk Venom
Posted by Larry Csonka on 04.09.2009

What’s the latest on the possible spin off?

For those of you wondering, a Venom
spin off is still in the works. Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick spoke with IGN.com and stated that they already working on the project. Reese had the following to say…

"Venom is something that we're very fired up to be writing. We have turned in a draft and are waiting to hear back, so it's early in the process. But it's a thrill to be writing Venom for obvious reasons."

The pair's current project, Zombieland, is also a Sony project, but according to Reese, they still had to pitch the project to Sony…

"I mean, they had parameters for sure. Obviously with a character like Venom there's a ton of stuff to draw from. Then they had specific rules about … the villain and the backstory and stuff like that, so there were certain things they wanted us… certain parameters they gave us. But largely we pitched them something and they liked it but they had changes, and so we worked on the outline for a long time and then we wrote the script. So it's definitely a collaborative [effort] with Marvel and Sony and us. It's very, very collaborative."

But what about Stan Lee? Will he be involved? Reese stated…

"Stan Lee will be in Venom, yes. Oh, yeah. Stan Lee is in it, yeah. I feel like that's the one thing we can say. He does appear in our script. And we're very specific about where he is and why. May he live forever. Let's hope he's in many movies to come."

Credit: IGN.com

[SwiftFire87]

I hope Venom can be done right and perfected for the fans.

[Professor Love]

I agree with you there Swift, they should please the fans