10 Insane Facts You Didn't Know About Venom
4. He Replaced Vulture In Spider-Man 3
You werent the only one who hated Spider-Man 3 - director Sam Raimi feels the exact same way, mainly because it wasn't the movie he got to make. It was always his intention to make the secondary villain of the piece be the Vulture, not Venom. Citing what he perceived as the fans wishes, it was producer Avi Arad who forced Raimi to use Venom instead.
That's right - instead of Ben Kingsley or John Malkovich playing the Sandmans cellmate who manipulates him into being his muscle, we got a crackhead who couldnt keep his costume on...
Raimi apparently hated Venom from the outset, never connecting with his lack of humanity. He evidently saw no appeal in a darker Spider-Man (the cerebral older man who uses mechanical means to feel younger was more engaging to him), and that really came across on-screen. We are now only left to wonder what Raimis original vision entailed.