Welcome back, it's been a minute and for that I must apologize, however, there has been a lot going on in the past few weeks and there have been a lot things going on in the nerd world. Don't worry my team (yes I said team, but more on that later) and I are coming back in force to bring you new content! Speaking of which, a few weeks back, Sony gave us a new look at their upcoming Venom movie. Let's check it out below:
Now a little while back I wrote a piece talking about how Venom was doomed to fail, however, this trailer did get my hopes up. While I am not too crazy about Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock being written as an honorable, whistle blowing, government conspiracy theorist, nor the motivations of the film's villain, I did like seeing Venom in action. Seeing Tom Hardy transform into an 8ft tall behemoth thats ripping people to shreds with tendrils and trying to bite peoples heads off was great. Even the way Venom speaks had me sold. I was finally starting to come around to maybe giving this film a fair chance. However, without fail, Sony found a way to nuke this project before ANY hype could be built back from the films lackluster promotion.
Despite giving us this brilliantly gritty trailer, and several promises from both the Director of this film AND Tom Hardy, Sony is dropping the rating down from an R to PG-13, claiming to be pushing the very limits of the rating. Why do this, is a question many would ask and the answer is kind of ironic. They want the film to have crossover potential in the future with Tom Holland's Spider-Man. This is genuinely hilarious considering how much of a big deal they made about a Venom film not needing Spider-Man, yet now they are doing everything in their power to ensure the characters meet on screen. So why the sudden change of heart? The answer is numbers.
While box office projections are no guaranteed thing, generally they do a pretty good job of showing how people are going to respond to the film, taking in account the hype behind the film, and how it would be affected in the best case scenarios. Let's just say, Venom is not looking so hot. To put it in perspective, Solo: A Star Wars Story, a film that is tracking to lose 50 million at the box office and had barely 3 months of promo, made 140 million on opening weekend, has made 450 million domestic and 940 million worldwide. Sony's Venom is projected to have an opening weekend of 60 million, finish it's box office run with 180 million domestic, and 400 million worldwide. This is tiny money for a big budget super hero film. (Source: IMDB ).
I said it in my last article and I'll say it here too, this movie will be a win, win scenario for fans. If this movie is good and does well, fans will have a great Venom movie that brings the charactr to the big screen in an amazing way that will make everyone forget the disaster of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3. In the worst case, Sony will lose so much money that their very dumb plan for their own Spider-Man universe (without a Spider-Man) will fail and it will force the company to sell the rights to pay the dividends.
This has been another edition of Comic Relief! I hope you all have enjoyed and we will see you next time!
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