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X-Men producer joins Venom 2 as November start date eyed

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With the franchise coming to an end following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, longtime X-Men producer Hutch Parker is heading to another cinematic superhero universe as THR reports that Sony has enlisted him to produce Venom 2. Parker first joined the X-Men franchise for 2011’s The Wolverine, and worked on X-Men: Days of Future […]

Andy Serkis discusses Venom 2, confirms Tom Hardy has been involved with writing

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This week it was announced that Andy Serkis is set to take on directing duties on Venom 2, teaming with Tom Hardy for a sequel to Sony’s Ruben Fleischer-helmed superhero blockbuster, and now Serkis has been chatting to GameSpot about his involvement with the film. “I’m right in the beginning stages, so I’ve got some […]

Andy Serkis, Travis Knight and Rupert Wyatt have met with Sony about directing Venom 2

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With Ruben Fleischer busy with post-production on Zombieland: Double Tap, it seems that Sony is wasting little time in finding a replacement for the filmmaker on Venom 2, with Variety reporting that the studio has recently met with three potential directors for the Marvel sequel. According to the trade, Andy Serkis (Mowgli: Legend of the […]

Venom producer says “no timetable” for the sequel as yet

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Sony kicked off its Universe of Marvel Characters last year with the release of Venom, the Tom Hardy-headlined film defying critics and putting the shared Spider-Man-themed universe on a firm footing with a whopping worldwide box office haul $855 million. With those kinds of numbers, it came as little surprise when Sony announced an October […]

Marvel releases trailer for Absolute Carnage

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With Marvel set to unleash Absolute Carnage this August, the publisher has released a trailer for the all-encompassing Venom event which promises “to shake the symbiote world to its core”. “We’ve given a serial murderer a nuclear bomb, essentially, and Cletus is gonna try and kill every single character that has ever worn a symbiote,” […]

Venom producer confirms Tom Hardy return for sequel, teases future Spider-Man crossover

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Last year saw the successful launch of ‘Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters’ with Venom, the Tom Hardy-headlined comic book adaptation defying critics (and early backlash against its marketing campaign) to gross an impressive $855 million worldwide. With a hit in the bag, Sony wasted little time in setting two further Marvel movie dates – the […]

Marvel’s Kevin Feige says Spider-Man and Venom crossover movie likely, but for Sony to decide

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Kevin Feige, the head of Marvel Studios, has said that a movie with both Spider-Man and Venom is likely but that it’s up to Sony. When news broke that there would be a Venom movie without Spider-Man, many fans were confused. Surely you can’t have one without the other? Well, while the Venom movie didn’t […]

Venom concept art shows an early alternate design for the symbiote

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Creature designer and artist Jared Krichevsky has shared a piece of concept art he produced for last year’s Sony blockbuster Venom which features an earlier, creepier design for Tom Hardy’s alien symbiote; check it out here, and let us know what you make of this design in the comments below or on Twitter @FlickeringMyth… SEE ALSO: Venom […]

Marvel unveils first Immortal variant covers

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Marvel has announced that it is set to pay homage to the many faces of the Marvel universe this September with a line-up of ‘Immortal’ variant covers each modelled after Bruce Banner’s transformation from the pages of Immortal Hulk. Check out the first four here, along with a full list of all the variant covers […]