Venom Movie: 10 Reasons To Be Excited

6. Its Use Of Source-Material

Until now, it's been a rare thing to see creators actively cite individual story-arcs when promoting a given comic book film. Even Captain America: Civil War, which was plainly based on the popular, if not ultimately inferior Mark Millar comic, never explicitly addressed that storyline specifically.

And yet, for some reason or another, Venom's creators are doing the exact opposite. In fact they've been quite explicit about the whole thing, citing David Michelinie's Lethal Protector storyline as being the film's main source of inspiration. There are both positives and negatives to glean from this approach, as adaptations should really be doing just that - adapting things - but it's refreshing to see filmmakers promote the comics that they've used to create their own story, certainly in the way Venom's done until now.

Comic book writers always seem to get the short end of the stick when it comes to adaptations, with work-for-hire contracts placing ownership squarely with the publishers they've worked for, so to receive at least some publicity prior to the release of a film that, for all intents and purposes, could owe its success to them, is a more than welcome change.

For the film itself however, it raises another question. Will Lethal Protector be the sole inspiration for Venom? One would hope not, as these adaptations tend to work best when an entire bibliography is taken into consideration, but there's nothing to say that Venom won't carve its own destiny come October.