Venom: 10 Mistakes Sony Must Avoid With The Spider-Man Spin-Off
4. Get Bogged Down In The Character's Origin
If there's on thing the world doesn't need right now, it's another superhero origin story.
This presents Venom with something of a conundrum since he isn't as well known as the likes of Spider-Man, Superman and other A-listers, so the uninitiated will need to be enlightened somehow.
Although the filmmakers will have to divulge how Eddie Brock came into contact with the symbiote, it's important that the character's origin isn't the focal point of the movie.
It took Marvel Comics decades to reveal Venom's full origin, stripping away the final layers of the symbiote's extraterrestrial backstory in a 2015 issue of Guardians of the Galaxy, and many of the most effective stories come from the era when the character still possessed that air of mystery.
Venom must move beyond scene setting fairly quickly and begin telling a broader story which taps into the many resources Marvel's Spider-Verse places at the filmmakers' fingertips.