VENOM Almost Had A Much Different (And Much Cooler) Opening Sequence - SPOILERS

VENOM Almost Had A Much Different (And Much Cooler) Opening Sequence - SPOILERS

Venom director Ruben Fleischer has revealed that there was originally a much different opening for the movie planned and it sounds infinitely cooler than what ended up on screen. Read on for details...

By JoshWilding - Oct 08, 2018 04:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Venom
Source: Cinema Blend
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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MarvelousMarty
MarvelousMarty - 10/8/2018, 4:34 AM
So is it worth seeing?
zeon00
zeon00 - 10/8/2018, 4:39 AM
@MarvelousMarty - yes
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 10/8/2018, 4:41 AM
@MarvelousMarty - It's exactly as worth seeing as the first Bay Transformers movie. It's basically the same movie, with a lower budget. Hardy is LaBeouf. Venom is a talkative Bumblebee. Riot is Megatron. Same tone. Similar premise. Similar construction.

(Minus the gratuitous Megan Fox skin, which may be a good or bad thing, depending on your point of few, I guess.)
Mattygrand
Mattygrand - 10/8/2018, 4:41 AM
The fact they were thinking about using the planet gets me thinking we gotta see it later on. Carnage will obviously be the focus of the first sequel, but if it was up to me, I’d have the third focus on Knull and him leading a full on symbiote invasion of Earth, and maybe Venom has to become Anti-Venom to fully stop him.
ftf530
ftf530 - 10/8/2018, 7:04 AM
@Mattygrand - I'd be more interested in a Toxin story, but still don't know how I feel about this whole thing...
Luminus
Luminus - 10/8/2018, 4:41 AM
Origame
Origame - 10/8/2018, 5:02 AM
@Luminus - ...because the movie literally just came out.
ElJefe
ElJefe - 10/8/2018, 4:43 AM
I saw this last night with my son - who is pretty easy to please when it comes to superhero flicks and a good time at the movies. We both agreed it was just “ok” ... not bad, like Fant4stic bad, but ok.

It’s a shame because the comics are killing it right now.

Also, Hardy isn’t good at playing a “loser”. I don’t know in what universe a handsome, muscular, celeb reporter is a loser but it’s definitely a hard sell here. I also didn’t understand how the symbiotes in the lab (spoilers) ...

... had so much trouble bonding successfully with other lifeforms when the one that was out in the world seemed to easily find humans to jump into as needed.

But, Venom looked cool.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 10/8/2018, 4:50 AM
@ElJefe - I bought his Brock. Both for this movie, and as an adaptation of the comic character. As someone who doesn't hold Hardy in particularly high regard, that was a pleasant surprise.
Origame
Origame - 10/8/2018, 5:04 AM
@ElJefe - i started reading your comment and at first i filled in what you were saying as that ridiculous lady gaga bot who claimed her kids were so disappointed by venom that they left early and instead went to see a star is born which they loved.
ElJefe
ElJefe - 10/8/2018, 6:56 AM
@Origame - Hahaha not quite ... but that is going to be my date night movie with my gf
ElJefe
ElJefe - 10/8/2018, 7:04 AM
@Spock0Clock - I wanted to because he was obviously all-in on the acting and didn’t flinch in the sillier parts - so there’s that.
ftf530
ftf530 - 10/8/2018, 7:07 AM
@ElJefe - the trouble bonding thing was one of the many inconsistencies

First, venom knows everything, but in the very next shot he's asking "who is this?" about Anne.

Half the film, the symbiote is killing eddie. That's never discussed again.

The symbiote apparently responds to fire the same way as it responds to high pitched noise, but, again, we never have it surviving a rocket launch explained.

So much inconsistency.
ElJefe
ElJefe - 10/8/2018, 7:16 AM
@ftf530 - Yes, the symbiote being ravenous and killing hosts seems to come and go for shock value at first - then a joke later. I never thought about the rocket crash haha
crawley
crawley - 10/8/2018, 7:22 AM
@ElJefe - i got the impression that the symbiotes were eating the organs of whoever they bonded with because they weren't given proper nutrition.

there is the scene where eddie eats some meat and venom says "this is not alive" or something to that effect then stops acting crazy when he eats the live lobster.
IronMandarin
IronMandarin - 10/8/2018, 4:43 AM
At my cinema they were handing out copies of the prequel comics that had dialogue that wasn't in the movie



This would've explained as to why Venom gets so offended when Eddie calls him a parasite. It would've been interesting to explore more of the symbiote homeworld and culture. Didn't necessarily need to be shown in the opening sequence, but it could've been used to strengthen Eddie and Venom's relationship.
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