A Venom movie inches forward – good news?

Things haven’t gone well for our favorite spidey superhero the past few years. Fans weren’t particularly excited about 2007’s “Spider-Man 3,” and the franchise lost a little steam. 

But his arch-nemesis Venom is moving closer to having his very own movie. This could be good or bad. Good if the black-oozed one is evil to the core. Bad if he’s lackluster.

I’ve got faith, though, because “Zombieland” writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are writing the screenplay. Hopefully, that means it’ll be edgy and dark, and not in a commercial way.

“We’ve written two drafts of ‘Venom,’ and the studio has it, and they’re pushing forward in whatever ways they push forward," Wernick told SCI FI Wire.

He didn’t know when the project would go into production, and it’s unclear whether it might happen before “Spider-Man 4” (unlikely, considering that movie begins shooting in early 2010). No word on what the relationship between the two films would be.

Happy news?

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