While we pretty much know there’s a Venom film in our future, we don’t know when and how it will figure into the Sinister Six film and Amazing Spider-Man 3 as Sony looks to rework things after the second feature underperformed financially and critically – though it was responsible for helping Sony have a very good year as a company overall. While out on the red carpet for the Scorpion TV series that’s coming, writer/director Alex Kurtzman was asked about the Spider-Man franchise as a whole and questioned about Venom in particular in how they want to do it.
“Well, Venom is sort of the flip side in that there are certain lines that Spider-Man won’t cross because he’s Peter Parker and Peter Parker will only do certain things and Venom is an entirely different character.”
Providing for a darker character isn’t a bad thing, but as we’ve seen from the two films so far, they have a hard time doing dark in the cartoonish nature that they’re doing.
“Venom, in a weird way, is the representation of every line that will get crossed. He’s a much darker character. I wouldn’t even really say more complicated because I think they’re both very complicated characters, but I think the attraction for me to Venom is the idea that you can do things that you can’t do with Spider-Man.”
Kurtzman also talked a bit about the main character of Spider-Man:
“Spider-Man has always occupied its own wonderful, unique space and the stories have evolved. You know, Spider-Man actually has the benefit of having had so many more movies than even some of the movies that have 2s and 3s in front of them now from Marvel and so I think as long as it keeps staying true to character and true to who Peter is, and putting him in interesting and complicated situations, it’ll survive because it’s so beloved. Everybody loves Spider-Man.”
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[Source: MTV]
