Venom 2: 8 Directors Sony Should Hire
5. Neil Blomkamp
Blomkamp has had a bit of a bumpy road to travel in the last decade, but between the RoboCop reboot and his phenomenal output of short films with his Oats Studio projects, he's more than reclaimed his legacy as one of Hollywood's most promising young directors.
He first rose to fame with the Oscar-nominated District 9, and it's pretty obvious to see why. In blending the found-footage, shaky-cam aesthetic with a story that was both politically and thematically charged, and then stapling it all together with the trappings of a monster film, Blomkamp delivered one of the most revolutionary pieces of science fiction cinema of the decade. And that is precisely why he would be perfect for Venom 2.
The sequences of Shartlo Copley's Wikus transforming into a Prawn in District 9 were well-and-truly stomach churning, channeling all the deranged joy of Cronenberg to deliver gory and affecting moments of body horror. Much like Upgrade, one could essentially view District 9 as a better Venom movie than the actual Venom movie we got, what with Wikus' unwitting transformation and the subsequent tale of vengeance and justice.
Blomkamp also has a strong eye for action, as even his lesser-received films like Elysium and Chappie still delivered edge-of-your-seat thrills in spectacular fashion. He's everything a Venom sequel needs and then some.