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Ruben Fleischer Very Open About the Desire to Have Spider-Man Appear In Future ‘Venom’ Films
Unless there’s a surprise cameo, we won’t be seeing Peter Parker or Spider-Man in Sony Pictures’ Venom, opening in theaters next Thursday night. While Eddie Brock (being played by Tom Hardy) and the symbiote became one in “The Amazing Spider-Man” comics, director Ruben Fleischer‘s adaptation offers a new rebirth that begins a different kind of dark universe for the antihero. Fleischer explains the decision to Latino Review:
“I felt like this movie is Venom’s movie and I didn’t want to distract from that. There is more than enough to explore with Eddie Brock and Venom in this film that we felt very satisfied with the story that we were telling.”
This is not to say that Spider-Man won’t eventually swing into the franchise for a one-on-one battle with his greatest foe. Fleischer is extremely candid about his hopes for future films, which could also include various other antiheroes such as Morbius (to be played by Jared Leto).
“The obvious thing that we are all excited to do is have Venom face off against Spider-Man at some point.
“So that was something…we knew we couldn’t use Spider-Man in this movie or didn’t want to use him in this movie. But we were all really excited about the potential for Spider-Man and Venom at some point in the future meeting up. Without spoiling anything, there are other adversaries from the world of Venom that we’re excited to meet up with in the future.”
Outside of Morbius, Sony plans franchises around the character Silk, Jackpot, and Nightwatch. Obviously, Carnage is expected to be the big bad if a Venom sequel were to happen.
An ongoing horror anthology series from BOOM! Studios, Hello Darkness is back this summer with Issue #23, and BOOM! has provided Bloody Disgusting with an exclusive sneak peek.
The temperature rises and so does the body count, as the horror anthology series returns for another round of summer slashing in Hello Darkness #23, releasing July 22, 2026.
In “Sunday Pt. II,” Ryan North and Giada Belviso send a Bride of Christ over the deep end into madness.
Then, Rich Douek and Stevan Subic lead you down a bloody path to the old west, where a brash young gunfighter seeks a showdown with “The Man Who Outdrew Death.”
Sink into the cool, briny depths of Kelly Williams’s “Old Wounds” when a grizzled light housekeeper hears the call of the sea one final time.
And finally, serve up a preview platter of erotic thriller “Gastronomique,” as a royal spy, Lady Charlotte, embarks on a cat-and-mouse hunt for the deadly cannibal Tarrare, from Marguerite Bennett and Helena Masellis.
Beat the heat with an all-new pool of fresh nightmares and dive right into horror’s deep end!
Peek inside the bloody pages of Hello Darkness #23 below!
Horror fans rejoice in cadaverous delight, because Hello Darkness is a brand new ongoing anthology series featuring what BOOM! Studios is known for–the best in modern Horror, Fantasy, and Mystery, not to mention the darkest stories yet from a murderer’s row of world class creators. Everything from primal fears to modern political horrors will be explored, in the classic style of Creepy and Eerie and the contemporary chills of Black Mirror.
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