Venom by Michelinie & McFarlane by David Michelinie

It was stacked with an awards-winning cast: Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, Michelle Williams as his partner, Anne, Riz Ahmed and Jenny Slate as the nefarious baddies, and helmed by director Ruben Fleischer ( Zombieland).Īnd still, the film was marred by incompetent storytelling.

It felt like a random, mad-libs-generated version of a film powered by a strange combination of earnestness and chaos. When Venom (bringing to new life the character created by legends David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane) came out in 2018, I didn’t know what to make of it. This news comes to us via can’t really talk about Venom: Let There Be Carnage without talking about what started it all: Venom. Recently, he said the success of Joker has opened new doors, which may help the project finally get off the ground.

McFarlane is set on directing the movie himself. Meanwhile, Todd McFarlane has been trying hard to get his R-rated Spawn reboot made for the last few years. Flashy event books could be what is needed to keep the industry afloat on the other side of this madness. While these characters may be the subjects of the biggest movies and TV shows around, the books themselves don't capture an audience nearly as big. Other writers in the industry have championed the idea of a Marvel/DC crossover to help get things kickstarted once business resumes. This isn't the first major crossover that has been floated recently. With that in mind, a crossover could do big business, which would benefit all involved. Spawn is, quite easily, one of the biggest comic book characters outside of the big two, Marvel and DC. The question is, would Marvel Comics be open to this? Spider-Man and Venom are two of the biggest characters in their library. We should all be good soldiers somewhere along the line. I never really had a compelling reason to do it, but you know, if part of it is that it helps a little bit in the stability of our industry, then maybe I should go back to doing manual labor and do my part.

'Something as crazy as a Spawn-Spidey be, I don't know, maybe. 'To me, I'm way more concerned about how it has any lasting effect, but with where we stand today and not knowing what's going to happen on the other side of normality and what that even looks like in terms of the comic book industry, then I've been sort of asking myself, are we going to need some event book or things on the other side, not just one or not just two, I think we're going to need a steady drum of them.'

Venom by Michelinie & McFarlane by David Michelinie