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‘Venom’ Inspirations Include Carpenter and Cronenberg Films
This isn’t the first time Zombieland‘s Ruben Fleischer has likened his Venom adaptation to classic horror films, but he’s now reiterating their heavy influence.
“Among my influences were John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, even An American Werewolf In London,” Fleischer told Empire Magazine.
Columbia Pictures’ president Sanford Panitch made eyebrows raise back in 2017 when he also said that Venom will draw on the work of both Carpenter and Cronenberg while promising “more pop and fun.”
It’s easy to see where Carpenter’s The Thing and several of Cronenberg’s films would have influence over how the symbiote would look and feel. Hopefully, they’re really going for that “R”-rating.
Digressing, Fleischer further spoke about the unity of the alien symbiote and Eddie Brock, the host:
“Unlike most superheroes who get bitten by a spider or invent their own Batsuit, Venom is really the combination of two beings to create a third.”
The latter quote is an interesting one as he’s referring to the symbiote that binds itself to Tom Hardy‘s Eddie Brock. Once united, Brock’s body becomes host to the symbiote who has a voice and mind of its own. The two struggle throughout the comics to coexist and thus walk a fine line between hero and villain.
Back in 2017, Fleischer referred to the relationship as that of Jekyll and Hyde. “They become almost a third being, which is what Venom is,” Fleischer explained. “There’s a famous quote: ‘You’re Eddie Brock. I’m the symbiote. Together we are Venom.’”
The two will allegedly fight several other symbiotes on October 5, 2018, which sets the stage for the introduction of Carnage.
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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