'Zombieland' Writer Confirms 'Venom' Revisions

The next two or three years are going to be interesting to watch for Marvel comics heroes. Because of the pending Disney deal - a $4 billion blockbuster - and the efforts by the estate of artist and writer Jack Kirby to wrest the rights of certain characters away from Marvel, we should see a huge run on the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe. We already know there are plans to reboot The Fantastic Four and Daredevil, do a few more things with X-Men, pursue a Silver Surfer movie, and make a Ghost Rider sequel on top of the Avengers arc Marvel is building over at Paramount and probably three more Spider-Man flicks. Building off of Spider-Man 3, Sony is devoting some attention to Venom. Talking to Zombieland co-writer Paul Wernick, Sci-Fi Wire found out that Sony has already seen two drafts of Venom and now, as Wernick puts it, "They're pushing forward in whatever ways they push forward." But Wernick wouldn't go so far as to set up the film or how it ties into the most recent Spider-Man or even (possibly) the next one. "We can't really talk about that, unfortunately," he said. "Basically, the studio and Marvel and the Arads are taking our drafts and going beyond and figuring out what's the next step." So...we get nothing, other than the knowledge that Sony is serious about this, serious enough to ask for a revision, which doesn't mean much without a director attached, but it does signal that the studio has a direction in mind and that's a bigger step than what we'd heard previously, which was more along the lines of "Hey, I hear Sony really wants to do a Venom movie."