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I have looked around and couldn't find this posted already, but please spare me and just kill it if it's on here already.
In this month's Empire movie magazine, there was a well written article with a few interesting tidbits, including the following...
Nov '06 p. 78
"Just in case you're wondering, Venom is actually a symbiotic alien, brought back to Earth by astronaut John Jameson (son of Daily Bugle proprietor J. Jonah Jameson, last seen in Spider-Man 2), which latches onto Parker, bonding with him and becoming his new costume. After the living suit - which no-one knows is alive - tries to possess Parker, and is then rejected, it foists itself instead onto the emotionally fragile Brock, becoming a force to be reckoned with, a creature with all of Spider-Man's powers and none of his moral strictures."
Raimi quote: "I really like him now. They really filled out Eddie Brock into a very meaningful character. Yes, Venom is an alien life force, but the humanity really comes through in Topher's performance. Tobey has a great energy with him in their few scenes together."
And Venom was called by Raimi the "wild goof from outer space".
These were all directly quoted from the article and I would appreciate it if someone out there is able to check it out as well and lend some credibility.
I am just personally glad that they decided to go with the alien origin and not make up some crazy new idea that would disgrace the source material. When I heard that this movie would be more of a departure from the comic books than any of the previous chapters in the saga for added realism, I was dreading that a new origin would be in store for the character. Good to know...
The article also gave details about some of the special effects work and the amount of CGI that was going into the characters and some other details that were nice to learn. I would highly recommend the article to anyone who cares.
In this month's Empire movie magazine, there was a well written article with a few interesting tidbits, including the following...
Nov '06 p. 78
"Just in case you're wondering, Venom is actually a symbiotic alien, brought back to Earth by astronaut John Jameson (son of Daily Bugle proprietor J. Jonah Jameson, last seen in Spider-Man 2), which latches onto Parker, bonding with him and becoming his new costume. After the living suit - which no-one knows is alive - tries to possess Parker, and is then rejected, it foists itself instead onto the emotionally fragile Brock, becoming a force to be reckoned with, a creature with all of Spider-Man's powers and none of his moral strictures."
Raimi quote: "I really like him now. They really filled out Eddie Brock into a very meaningful character. Yes, Venom is an alien life force, but the humanity really comes through in Topher's performance. Tobey has a great energy with him in their few scenes together."
And Venom was called by Raimi the "wild goof from outer space".
These were all directly quoted from the article and I would appreciate it if someone out there is able to check it out as well and lend some credibility.
I am just personally glad that they decided to go with the alien origin and not make up some crazy new idea that would disgrace the source material. When I heard that this movie would be more of a departure from the comic books than any of the previous chapters in the saga for added realism, I was dreading that a new origin would be in store for the character. Good to know...
The article also gave details about some of the special effects work and the amount of CGI that was going into the characters and some other details that were nice to learn. I would highly recommend the article to anyone who cares.
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