Brock attempts to rescue Maria, but the symbiote possessing her transfers to his body without him realizing it, leaving her dead. She helps Brock break into the research facility to search for evidence, and he learns that an acquaintance of his, a homeless woman named Maria, is one of the test subjects. Brock is approached by Dora Skirth, one of Drake's scientists who disagrees with his methods and wants to expose him.
Six months later, Drake's symbiosis trials are closer to success, though one of his symbiotes dies due to carelessness. Consequently, Weying ends their relationship. Brock confronts Life Foundation CEO Carlton Drake about the trials, leading to both Brock and Weying losing their jobs. Investigative journalist Eddie Brock reads about these human trials in a classified document in the possession of his fiancée Anne Weying, an attorney preparing a lawsuit defense for the Life Foundation. The Life Foundation recovers the other three and transports them to their research facility in San Francisco, where they discover that the symbiotes cannot survive without oxygen-breathing hosts, which often fatally reject the symbiosis. The probe returns to Earth with four samples, but one escapes and causes the ship to crash in Malaysia. While exploring space for new habitable worlds, a probe belonging to the bio-engineering corporation Life Foundation discovers a comet covered in symbiotic lifeforms. 3.2.1 Writing and Spider-Man connection.It was followed by the sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage in 2021. The film was a box office success, becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2018 with over $856 million worldwide, and setting several box office records for an October release. It received generally negative reviews for its narrative, inconsistent tone, and lack of a stronger connection to Spider-Man, although Hardy's performance received some praise. Venom was released in the United States on October 5, 2018. The film was primarily inspired by the comic book miniseries Venom: Lethal Protector (1993) and the story arc " Planet of the Symbiotes" (1995). Filming took place from October 2017 to January 2018 in Atlanta, New York City and San Francisco. In March 2017, Rosenberg and Pinkner were set to write, with Fleischer and Hardy added in May. Sony also intended for Venom to share the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), but ultimately distanced the film from Spider-Man. In March 2016, work began on a new version that would start a new shared universe featuring the Marvel characters that the studio possessed film rights to. In the film, journalist Brock gains superpowers after becoming the host of an alien symbiote whose species plans to invade Earth.Īfter Venom's appearance in Spider-Man 3 (2007), Sony Pictures attempted to develop a spin-off film based on the character. The film stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock and Venom, alongside Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, and Reid Scott. It is the first film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, and was directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg, and Kelly Marcel. Venom is a 2018 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel and Tencent Pictures.