8 Reasons Why Sony's Venom Movie Has Us Worried
7. Lack Of Comic Book-Accurate Origins
One of the biggest issues with this Venom solo film is its timing. Coming hot on the heels of Homecoming, the film feels a bit too reminiscent of prior Sony mistakes, insofar as that they are forcing the character into a slot like a square peg into a round hole.
In the comic books, Venom's origin is directly tied to Spider-Man. When the symbiote originally makes its way to Earth, it bonds to one Peter Parker. This leads to the infamous black-suited Spider-Man arc in the comics. This culminates in Spider-Man freeing himself from the symbiote, only for it to take up residence in a new host, Eddie Brock.
While recent rumors seem to suggest an appearance from Spider-Man may, in fact, be in the cards for the film, it has no chance of coming even remotely close to doing the story justice. Instead, what is much more likely is a straight-forward Venom film with a truncated origin that cuts Spidery out of the equation.
This is especially disappointing when considering just how well this could all be done if Sony had the patience of its partners at Marvel. Instead, Sony looks to be ruining our chances of seeing a fully-realized version of this seminal story arc. Again.