Venom, one of the antagonists par excellence in cómic of Spider-Man, will have its own film, that will be directed by Gary Ross, informed the specialized magazine Variety today.
Ross, producer of titles like “Pleasantville” (1998), or “Seabiscuit” (2003), at the moment write the final version of the script for the quarter of “Spider-Man” for the studies “Columbia Pictures”, that will count again on Sam Raimi like director. “Marvel Entertainment”, Avi Arad, and the own Ross, will be the producers of the tape.
The personage of Venom, interpreted by Topher Grace in “Spider-Man 3”, will transform itself into a antihero who will become firmly defending of the innocents. The intention of the producers is that the main paper interprets in the new film a different actor to begin of zero.
Venom is the creature whom the personage of Eddie Brock becomes, a rival in the newspaper where Peter works Parker (Tobey Maguire), after to be infected by a foreign organism who adheres to their skin, which provides powers to him superiors to which it owns Spider-Man.
Although Marvel Entertainment was acquired recently by Disney by 4,000 million dollars, “Columbia Pictures” can give green light to this tape because it owns the perpetual rights on all the personages of the universe “Spider-Man”. In fact Jamie Vanderbilt works already in the scripts for the fifth and sixth part. Ross also is involved, like scriptwriter and director, in the cinematographic project on the life of the American cyclist Lance Armstrong.
