Roberto Orci wrote The Amazing Spider-Man 2 alongside frequent collaborator Alex Kurtzman, and they will reteam once again for the third instalment of the franchise and the planned Venom spin-off (which will also be directed by Kurtzman). Meanwhile, The Cabin in the Woods director Drew Goddard is set to pen a Sinister Six movie, with an eye to direct should his schedule allow it.
In an interview with IGN, Orci was quizzed on how the braintrust which has been set up to handle Sony’s Spider-Man Cinematic Universe will go about dealing with an all-villain team like the Sinister Six, and whether or not they will have to approach them in a way that sees the likes of the Green Goblin and Electro portrayed as anti-heroes or “good”, despite being bad!
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 [Cabin Fever] 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 antiheroes in this day and age. There’s been examples of that even on TV — Vic Mackey on The Shield, one of the great antiheroes 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.
As for Venom, Orci remained coy when asked whether we’ll see Eddie Brock, Flash Thompson or even someone else wearing the alien suit. It does sound like they’re planning a unique twist on the character though, something which is sure to worry fans of the comic books, especially after Venom’s disastrous big screen debut in 2007’s Spider-Man 3.
I think they’re ready to have things shaken up. I think we’ve all seen everything. You’ve seen everything. You can probably predict the ending of most things even better than a general audience, but a general audience is still pretty good at it. They can see it all coming. So we have to shake it up. You can’t just keep telling the same stories every day.
Finally, the writer would go on to hint that Venom will perhaps not be alien in origin this time around, instead keeping the focus on Oscorp (the corporation which seems to be at the centre of the web holding all of these movies together). That’s not exactly a huge deparure from some comics, as the Venom symbiote was revealed to be the creation of Peter Parker and Eddie Brock’s fathers in the Ultimate Universe.
Yeah. 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 anyway 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.
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