Venom

According to Sci Fi Wire, "Sony is officially moving forward with its Spider-Man spinoff movie focusing on Venom and has hired 'Zombieland' writing team Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese to pen the script, the writers told a group of reporters.

'We had a really great relationship with Sony on ['Zombieland'], and so that was a nice in for us there,' Reese said in a group interview. 'It gave us a leg up.'

The duo is already working on the script, but they are sworn to secrecy on the details. 'We're under strict orders on Venom,' Wernick said. 'We can't talk about it. It's just super secret.'

Unlike 'Spider-Man' director Sam Raimi, who has admitted that he wasn't a Venom fan before directing 'Spider-Man 3,' Wernick and Reese said they are big fans of the comic character and have recently been doing their research to ensure that they do justice to him. 'We read [Venom] growing up, but we were not experts,' Reese said. 'We certainly know the mythology of Venom, but went back and learned more when it became clear that we could actually get this job.'

Ultimately, the writing team has fan interest at heart, they said. Even as they are just getting started on the script, they admit fan scrutiny is on their minds. 'Absolutely. I'm terrified,' Reese said with a nervous laugh. 'It's source material that everybody knows and everybody's familiar with and everybody loves. There's a burden on you to meet the expectations of people. A lot of people are curious about Venom.'"

Coming Soon also had time to chat with the two writers on the sert of "Zombieland" and Venom of course came into the discussion.

"The duo actually went to Sony with a pitch for their take for the popular Spidey villain, but couldn't really say too much about it due to the usual non-disclosure agreements anyone involved with such a high profile project for Marvel would probably have to sign.

'Venom is something that we're very fired up to be writing,' Reese told us. '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.'

As far as what they looking for, Reese did say that they had to follow 'certain parameters' or the '47 rules' as Wernick called them.

'Obviously, with a character like Venom there's a ton of stuff to draw from,' Reese told us. '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, so we worked on the outline for a long time and then we wrote the script. So with Marvel and Sony and us it's definitely very, very collaborative.'

They couldn't talk about whether they were going to ignore everything that happened with the character in 'Spider-Man 3' or start fresh for reasons mentioned above."


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