Production details

If there’s one thing we can be certain of, it’s that the Venom announcement came out of nowhere. Everybody’s entitled to be a bit leery about it; there are so many unknowns that no one would blame you for believing that it would have to be a mess.

As it turns out, Sony never dropped their plans to release the movie (although it seemed otherwise). While production listings should be taken with a grain of salt, they indicated that shooting would begin during the fall of 2017, which was much earlier than expected. But without casting announcements or a director (Yes, we know that Alex Kurtzman was attached to direct, but that was ages ago.), it seems implausible.

But, given the release date (October 5, 2018), the studio must have been prepping for the project for some time. Otherwise, it would indeed be a mess, right?

According to the same production listings, Venom is set to be an action/sci-fi/horror hybrid. As far as we’re concerned, that’s the proper way to go with such a character. However…