Venom Director On Potential Return To Sony Marvel Movie Franchise
Ruben Fleischer, who helmed the first Venom film, recently spoke about potentially returning to Sony's Marvel franchise. While Sony Pictures has been busy portraying Spider-Man on the big screen in the MCU with Marvel Studios, they have also been actively fleshing out their own Marvel-inspired franchise. Dubbed Sony's Spider-Man Universe, the web-crawler has yet to appear while several of his iconic villains have been starring in their own films. The Spidey-based universe began with Eddie Brock as the first character to headline his own movie with Tom Hardy as Venom. In less than two months, Morbius will be hitting theaters starring Jared Leto as the titular character. While famously known as iconic Spider-Man antagonists, Sony is taking the anti-hero route with these characters, which is part of their respective canon.
After Fleischer directed the first Venom installment, Andy Serkis boarded its sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage. The second film explored Venom taking on Marvel's second most famous symbiote in the form of Carnage, played by Woody Harrelson. While doing a bit less than its predecessor at the box office, Venom: Let There Be Carnage still became a commercial success amidst the global pandemic, gathering over $500 million dollars. With no set release date just yet, Sony Pictures is developing a third Venom film with Hardy set to reprise the role.
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Even though Serkis has expressed interest in returning to the director's chair for Venom 3, the franchise's first filmmaker seems to be open for it too. When chatting with Screen Rant recently, Fleischer was asked if he would ever be interested in directing another Venom movie. While he
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