Any character has potential. All it takes is talented people with a good idea. Marvel has not done this in the comics yet.
No, every character does not have potential to have their own movie. Every character has a potential to be good, IMO. But that doesn't deem them solo movie material.
Some people here are of the notion that if a character had a solo series in the comics, that means they are meant for solo stardom on the big screen. That is BS.
Catwoman had her own series for years. But the kind of antics she gets up to on her own is fine for a 22 page comic. It's not movie material. Even my favorite villain, The Joker, had his own series:
Again, that doesn't mean he should get his own movie.
I don't see any winning ideas from anyone so far. What do you want them to do with Venom for 2 hours?
It didn’t just fail because Venom was anti-hero. He was over-exposed. That’s hurt popular characters no matter who they are.
Wolverine is the most over exposed, ****ed out character I have ever seen in comic book land. Yet here is is getting a solo movie that looks to be really good.
Why? Wolverine has depth and substance. Wolverine has a story worth telling.
I've already addressed this in a prior post:
You want Venom to be on a quest to be a better crime fighter than Spider-Man?
Heavens to murgatroid, that might actually be worse than the anti-hero routine, if that's even possible. No offence meant, Major. But that sounds dreadful.
Why wait when Sony wants to do a Venom movie now?
Because quality is worth waiting for. I was impatient as hell waiting for 3 years for TDK after Begins. But man, it was sooooooooooo worth it.
Sony is just cashing in on a character's popularity here. That's all. That's what most spin offs are all about.
What’s Venom like on that show?
He's really good. It's actually the only version of the character I enjoyed. The show itself just oozes quality.
No, those were reinventions.
Come on. The Penguin was practically nothing like his comic book counterpart. Sewer mutant hating on society, with a circus gang, and wanting to murder the children of Gotham.
The Penguin of the comics is posh, dapper master criminal, who is like the aristocrat of crime. He steals faberge eggs, rare species of bird, uses trained killer birds etc.
But the character in Returns is labelled a reinvention. Like Berry's Catwoman.
Catwoman is not solo movie material. What would they have her do for 2 hours? She's a Batman villain. She's a thief, who has a sexual attraction to Batman, and who flip flops between sides whenever it suits her.
She's a great character, but she was never destined to carry a movie. Wouldn't matter who made the movie about her.
What do you know about Venom?
Everything. I've read all his comics. It's why I can make such an impassioned opinion on it.
What don’t you find interesting?
Characters with a story worth telling.
They want to make a Venom spin-off, don’t they?
That’s an expansion.
That's a cash in, and we both know it. Sony is only interested in making $$$, and they think they can get it by selling some half baked Venom product to his rabid fans who were left unsatisfied with SM-3.
They probably will make the bucks, too.
Did you think the same with Blade when you heard he was getting a movie?
Nope, because the success of Buffy proved that vampire slayers and their world make for good stories.
Everybody has different tastes with things. It’s obvious Venom just never could appeal to Riami’s sensibilities no matter what he read.
Because Sam only likes characters who have depth and emotion. It's not like he resented the character from the get-go. He went and did his homework, and saw what was there: a shallow character who sky rocketed to fame and popularity due to a cool look and similar Spidey powers.
He isn’t the only director in Hollywood who could make Venom work in a movie. Hollywood is filled with creative people. Sony just needs to find one who has a good story to tell with the character.
Well, they say miracles can happen
