When Sony Pictures set out to make Marvel movies based around Spider-Man characters, without Spider-Man’s involvement, my excitement level for them has been on the lower end. I mean, how do you properly play with these characters without Spider-Man?! After all, he’s a main component for each of these character’s stories! While some of the films look interesting and fun, I just don’t think their stories can properly be told without Spider-Man.
I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first Venom film, but according to Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group President Sanford Panitch, after you see the sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, you won’t even miss Spider-Man. In an interview with Variety, he said:
“We don’t really think of our 900 characters as the Spidey-verse. We have a Marvel universe. The volume of characters we have — you know, wait until you see this next ‘Venom.’ You don’t miss Spider-Man.”
I’ll believe it when I see it. That first trailer that was released for the film looked like we were just going to get more of the same. When asked about the possibility of Spider-Man and Venom crossing over, Panitch went on to say, “It’ll be exciting if they do meet, right?” He added:
“There actually is a plan. I think now maybe it’s getting a little more clear for people where we’re headed and I think when ‘No Way Home’ comes out, even more will be revealed.”
With films like Spider-Man: No Way Home breaking open the Spider-Verse with Doctor Strange, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness cracking open the multiverse in the MCU, I’m sure we’ll eventually see Spider-Man in the Marvel Universe that Sony is building with these other characters like Venom, Morbius, and Kraven The Hunter.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is set to release on September 24, 2021.