According to GeekTyrant.com Todd McFarlane himself has come out and declared that Venom may be returning in Spider-man 4. His actual quote was:
“I co-created Venom. He was in the last Spider-man movie. And I think he will make an appearance here in the next one, too.”
While hardly a significant quote to write about, the article does go on to quote McFarlane criticizing Raimi on the use of the beloved villain he helped to create.
“He’s one of the more popular villains of the last ten, fifteen years. Given that I created him, I have a little bit of a bias. I would’ve done a few things different. When I first created him, I made him huge. That would’ve been the first thing for me; I would’ve wanted somebody who looked like he was three times the size of Spider-Man, so it was almost like Spider-Man going against the Hulk. [I want] someone who is really formidable; whenever you have a skinny character against a big one it’s like ‘Woah, I’m going to have to work today.’ But instead, the two of them were about the same size. I would’ve done something more dramatic. [I also would’ve increased] the nastiness; I never cared too much about the comics code. I always pushed the envelope until the editor said ‘You’d better pull that back.’”
My hope is, after the ruthless backlash that EVERYONE delivered in response to the dreck that Raimi actually had the gall to put onscreen, and after this little tidbit from Venom’s creator himself, maybe, JUST MAYBE, Raimi is considering retooling his flaccid original design of the character for the upcoming Spider-sequel. Which, at this point, I would not be against at all. At this point in the history of comic book adaptation, so many liberties have been taken with so many properties, that if a franchise has the gusto to go back and retcon a little of their work in an effort to further adhere to the source material, I say go for it! I would forgot Spider-Man 3 entirely if Raimi came out swinging with a massive, maniacal, formidable foe, in the form of Venom. Of course, this would all mean that Raimi had decided to use Venom in Spider-Man 4. And that he would acquiese to fan demand and totally revamp his original concept. Only after all that ego-bashing will Spider-Man 4 actually excite me. Oh, and the recasting of Peter Parker. A boy can dream, can’t he?
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May 10, 2009 at 3:26 am |
Are you fucking kidding me? How was SM3 bad? Maybe you’re just not a Sam Raimi fan as part 3 was the most “Raimi” version of those films. People shit all over that film and I loved it. Oh, Venom wasn’t huge? Fuck Todd. He is such a huge fan of himself. Dude got famous for Spawn which did nothing but take the same damned poses he did in Spiderman. McFarlane was a hack and doesnt deserve press.
Venom is overrated. He is not one of the best villians in the past 15 years. Ask me to make a top ten and he wont get close. You acknowledge that comic book movies take liberties. They did the best job they could with Venom. An all Venom movie would not be all that interesting. I was more interested in Sandman to be honest. Check out some of Raimi’s other films. Everyone that hated SP3 should.
May 11, 2009 at 1:01 am |
Oks, let me first clarrify some shtuff:
As much as I DO love me some good Venom action, I agree that he’s not one of the BEST villains of the past 15 years, but I do think he’s a GREAT, formidable physical foe for Spidey to fight and make some awesome artwork out of. Which brings me to my point; TOPHER GRACE CANNOT BE EDDIE BROCK! Cannot. No way. I love Topher Grace. I want to see him in WAY more. But casting him as Brock was as bad as casting Maguire as Parker. DOES NOT WORK. Brock was Parker’s antithesis, Big, brawny, clumsy, and dumb in a shoot-first-ask-questions-laterish/I’m-a-man-of-action sort of way. He wasn’t a snarky, sly, physical equal to Parker. Which is why I vindicate my previous claim of CASTING: FAIL!