Sony’s Spider-Man cinematic universe
is growing up to be one of the biggest in the genre, not only thanks to The
Amazing Spider-Man 2, 3 and 4, but also the spin-off movies, Sinister Six and
Venom.
In a recent interview to IGN,
Roberto Orci, the co-writer of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and 3 as well as of the
solo spin-off film Venom and one of the key members in developing the
Spider-Man cinematic universe, talked about bringing these villains to the
screen and how are they going to do it. Will it be bad guys turned good? The
other way around? How?
“That’s the discussion we’re
having right now; how exactly do you do that, and how do you do it without
betraying the audience and making them all mean? Drew Goddard [the
director/co-writer of 'The Cabin in the Woods'] is going to be writing that
one, so it’s kind of his problem. [Laughs.] I’m kidding. We’re all working on
each other’s stuff. So we want to be true to it, but there are some anti-heroes
in this day and age. There’s been examples of that even on TV – Vic Mackey on
‘The Shield,’ one of the great anti-heroes of all time. There are ways to milk
that story. Audiences have seen everything. They’ve seen all the good guys who
never do anything wrong. Is there a story in seeing the other side? That’s the
challenge, and that’s the fun. I’m not sure how we’re going to do that yet.”
Regarding the villains in The
Amazing Spider-Man 2, Orci said:
“Oscorp plays an important part
in how our villains get created, obviously, in the first one. So because Peter
becoming Spider-Man came out of that, rather than saying, ‘And then this alien
came from space,’ or whatever, they’re doing human-hybrid, weird stuff at
Oscorp. That’s where Gwen Stacy works [...] as well. So the idea of it
representing the good and the bad of science, that it can do great things, but
it can also mess you up and do weird things and transform people – as all
science can be used for good or bad. So it’s nice to have that organizing
principal, but it wasn’t like, ‘We must keep it at Oscorp.’ It flowed naturally
from the story development.”
As many comic book fans know,
there are multiple storylines and origin stories for a myriad of characters
like in this case Venom. Orci refers to Venom as an “alien came from space”, so
he is implying that the character comes from the 616 run, but Orci also says ”they’re
doing human-hybrid, weird stuff at Oscorp”, which comes from the Ultimate
Spider-Man series. So what will it be? 616 or Ultimate? It sounds like Venom could
come from a jar at Oscorp and not from outer space.
Orci then clarified the mix-up
with The Amazing Spider-Man 4 release date (2018), saying that it will indeed
be for TASM4 and not Sinister Six or Venom:
“[...] No, I think with
‘Spider-Man 4,’ the intention is for it to be ‘Spider-Man.’ “
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens on
April 18th, 2014 and will star Andrew Garfield (Spider-Man), Emma
Stone (Gwen Stacy), Jamie Foxx (Electro), Chris Cooper (Norman Osborne), Dane
DeHaan (Harry Osborn), Paul Giamatti (Rhino), Sally Field (Aunt May), Martin
Sheen (Uncle Ben), Colm Feore (The Vulture - rumor), B.J. Novak, Brian Haley
(Phil Watson), Martin Csokas (Dr. Kafka) and Felicity Jones.
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