Kevin Feige Reveals Whether Or Not VENOM Is Set In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
There's been a lot of confusion about how movies like Venom and Silver & Black fit into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its Spider-Man, but Kevin Feige has now cleared the matter up...
Upon realising that they were handling Spider-Man all wrong, Sony Pictures decided to team up with Marvel Studios to bring Peter Parker into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That put spinoffs like Venom and Sinister Six on the shelf...for a little while at least. The former is now happening with Tom Hardy set to take on the role of Eddie Brock, but how can the symbiote exist without Spider-Man around?
That's a question the movie is going to have to find a way to answer as Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has confirmed that Venom will not be making his presence felt in the MCUany time soon.
"For now, there is no plan for Venom in the MCU," he tells AlloCine. "It’s a Sony Project." That was to be expected, but it's still disappointing. After all, Venom is a character who only exists because of Spider-Man. It was Peter Parker who found the alien suit and ended up rejecting it when it tried to bond with him. He also made an enemy of journalist Eddie Brock when he outed him as a fraud, so the two coming together to get their revenge on the wall-crawler is the whole basis of the iconic villain.
However, with no Spidey and a setting which isn't in the MCU, who knows what form Venom will take!
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