Sequels online petition to stop Sony's Venom movie?

[auditor]

anybody here really Facebook savvy down for the challenge? you could start an online petition stop the Venom movie. then all of us could help out we can go to our local comic book store, and encourage everyone there to go online and sign it.

 

[AnneFan]

I'm usually not one to support petitions, but I'd sign this one. Sony now need to accept reality and get out of the way.

 

[Octoberist]

It's probably not going to happen, especially in the post-Cap: Civil War world.

 

[Abudefduf]

Ok, two things:

1) Online petitions are useless.

2) No need for a petition anyway, because what will stop this movie is common sense.

 

[Doctor Octopus]

I won't mind if it get made because it fail anyway. Another failure for Sony.

 

[MbJ]

Has there ever been a petition that has actually stopped anything from getting made?

 

[Lantern Venom]

anybody here really Facebook savvy down for the challenge? you could start an online petition stop the Venom movie. then all of us could help out we can go to our local comic book store, and encourage everyone there to go online and sign it.

*If* (and that's a massive *IF*) a Venom movie sees the light of day, let it be judged on its own merits. While Venom fans are right to be skeptical of Sony, Fox's Deadpool proved that sometimes a studio with a mixed track record can roll the dice and produce something great.

Now, if you'd like to start a petition to bar Blowpher Grace from stepping foot on to the set of any future comic book adaptations, count me in.

 

[TheVileOne]

Petitions are stupid, and online petitions are stupider.

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Still worthy cause to try and stop Venom movies from happening.

 

[Lantern Venom]

TMNT2's Rocksteady, Stephen "Sheamus" Farrelly, wants to be Venom.

http://www.inquisitr.com/1621235/wwe-star-sheamus-wants-to-play-venom/

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Wrestler actor who play Rocksteady want to be Venom. That perfect. He already have experience playing dumb villains now lol.

 

[Lantern Venom]

Wrestler actor who play Rocksteady want to be Venom. That perfect. He already have experience playing dumb villains now lol.

I don't know enough about his acting to say whether he could pull off all of the nuances of Eddie's complex personality, but I have seen Sheamus on TV with WWE a few times. He does have a sense of humor and he's got a credible physique to be a terrifying threat in a film. So that would put Sony two steps ahead of last time when they started with nothing (Topher) and ended with less than nothing( the shallow writing of the character) in SM3. Any new version of Venom would be better by default since the bar wasn't set last time, but discarded on the ground.

 

[Doctor Octopus]

lol Justin Bieber could pull of nuances of Eddie Brock personality. Take no acting talent for that.

 

[Lantern Venom]

lol Justin Bieber could pull of nuances of Eddie Brock personality. Take no acting talent for that.

That's true since if Sony cast Justin Bieber, who is about 5'9" and 150lbs, they would already be conceding that the character would be VINO again. As we saw last time, no acting talent is required for something as weak as SM3's Venom. Yet Fox learned a painful lesson about gutting popular characters and eventually reaped the rewards of doing it right. Perhaps Sony can as well.

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Sony having Avi Arad on this project so they not learn anything lol. Avi Arad reason Venom was in Spider-Man 3 so if you lucky you get that version again. But you probably get someone as bad as Justin Bieber or maybe someone who have practice at play dumb villains like wrestler Rocksteady actor. That good experience for playing Venom lol.

 

[Lantern Venom]

Sony having Avi Arad on this project so they not learn anything lol. Avi Arad reason Venom was in Spider-Man 3 so if you lucky you get that version again. But you probably get someone as bad as Justin Bieber or maybe someone who have practice at play dumb villains like wrestler Rocksteady actor. That good experience for playing Venom lol.

Venom fans certainly weren't lucky with the Blowpher VINO in SM3. Having the character not adapted at all would have been preferable to seeing everything that is great about the comic version roasted on a spit on the silver screen.

We were lucky that writer/director Joe Lynch decided to make Venom: Truth In Journalism. Somehow a 17-minute black & white short film captured more of Eddie's complicated personality than a $250 million blockbuster, but that's a cold, hard fact. Sony should take notes if they want to give the character another try. They should either respect the source material or just not bother.

 

[PeterBenParker]

If they plan on using Eddie Brock, please get Dan Stevens. That is all.

 

[Big Al]

Considering how we've heard nothing about the project lately, I'm going to assume it isn't going to get made which is good. I hope Marvel casts Jensen Ackles as Eddie Brock.

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Best thing to happen is no Venom movie. Glad it seem to be cancelled.

 

[Darkraid]

Why people hate Venom? I would love a Venom movie based in MCU. Obviously Feige needs to oversee it.

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't hate Venom at all. However, my belief was if he wasn't a Spider-Man villain, he was a weak character. Eventually, they made him an antihero and then a secret operative for the government, which I thought was just silly. Those stories didn't work.

IMHO a Venom solo movie doesn't work. How do you make that story work without Spider-Man? I don't see it.

 

[ehh]

The story could work if and only if they introduced him in a Spider-Man movie first. After their battles and they part ways, you could probably get some good stories out of Venom IF Marvel Studios was in control and under Feige's direction.

 

[Big Al]

It would be interesting to see a Venom Netflix series featuring other symbiotes.

 

[ehh]

As long as they introduced him on film first, I'd like that. Probably would happen as a movie first though.

 

[ItchyWebShooter]

We don't need symbiotes, plural. At all.