‘Venom’s Long Road to the Big Screen, Explained

When Venom hits theaters on October 5th, it will have been a long time coming.

Hollywood has been trying to bring the titular Marvel Comics character to the big screen for ages, with various different iterations from a number of filmmakers having been developed and then scrapped along the way.

The version that finally made it to the big screen hails from director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) with Tom Hardy in the lead role as Eddie Brock, but given Sony Pictures’ collaboration with Marvel Studios on the Peter Parker character as played by Tom Holland, this Venom movie had to come …

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