Venom opens with a pretty standard shot of a spaceship crashing to Earth but director Ruben Fleischer has now revealed that things could have taken a much more exciting turn with a visit to the planet Venom originally called home. "The beginning of the movie was a hard one," the filmmaker explained during a recent interview to promote the movie. "Like, how much do we want to tell the backstory?"
"There was a version [of the opening] where there was a planet crawling with tons of symbiotes that were collected and taken back to Earth by the Life Foundation. They had encountered them. But it kind of felt like, my instinct was it would be better to keep it more mysterious and just know that they've retrieved something from space. We don't know exactly by what means or how."
The planet of the symbiotes is called Klyntar and it was created to imprison their leader, Knull. While it would have been a tad complicated to delve into that, it does seem a shame to leave it off the table and Venom producer Matt Tolmach added that there was even concept art created for the planet.
"We toyed with some art work that we loved. We toyed with it," he said. "But we wanted the movie – it's out there. It's part of our mythology. It's part of our backstory, Klyntar and where this all came from and who knows what's next. But, it made sense to, in this movie, to let the origin of those things kind of unravel in the storytelling as opposed to going [to that planet]." What do you think?
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