Once More into the Fray, with a Mask On.
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Venom
Sony
[05th of October, 2018]
above 80% after Homecoming success with an unknown premise but a strong cast.
Chance of Success =
over 70% with the capable lead and an intriguing premise despite no Spider-Man.
over 70% with the capable lead and an intriguing premise despite no Spider-Man.
a case for the tricky collaboration between Sony and Marvel:
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A miracle was born when the two giant leaders of the industry agreed on a mutually beneficial agreement after years of friendly competition with their comic book adaptations, and Homecoming is the product of a risk well taken by both parties.
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With Tom Holland's Spider-Man safely secure his place in the MCU, Sony's decision to use the well received reboot as the focal point for a Spidey-verse spinoff that will not directly connected (possibly tangentially so) to Marvel's Cinematic Universe, using his extensive villains roster for standalones.
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It is still hazy on the possibility of the Spider-Man's involvement here (and the Sony's purported Universe) and the die hard (and even casual) fans believe there shouldn't be Venom without Spider-Man ... since it's shooting now and no news coming out of it to say otherwise, it is still up in the air.
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a case for the previous reincarnation that should be left unsaid:
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If it's anything, the transition from the pages to live action was retrospectively well enough to integrate the design of Tobey Maguire's suit together with the original's cartoonishly overboard and menacing look, resulting in a more bulked up version of the Spider-Man without the sympathy and all the animal instincts the Symbiote brought with it.
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Eddie Brock's portrayal and main motivation to turn evil on the other hand ...
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Whether or not it was the studio's or Sam Raimi's decision to include three supervillains in one movie (I believe it was the former), it was proven to be the film's undoing as each of them would be suffice to be the only main threat in a film (just like the previous two films) and Venom ultimately deserves so much more than just one of the throughlines and side stories in a bloated feature.
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a case for the Solo Symbiote film without the Spider:
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Even though much of the DNA of Venom in the comics are interconnected with the teenage Parker, there are a lot of spin-offs in his own line of comics that delve into the Symbiote as an alien and Brock as a character (and even antihero) which bodes well for this iteration especially if it rumoured to follow the Lethal Protector storyline.
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Just look at the strong cast being assembled in Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed ... it might not be a guaranteed success , but on paper it's a step in the right direction.
They didn't learn from their past mistake in Spider-Man 3 and in the end repeated the same fault again in the Amazing Spider-Man 2 and because of that costly misfire that they decided to team up with Marvel and let them steer the project instead of them. Their intended 'followup' with Sinister Six was cancelled due to Andrew Garfield's second outing failure but now with the third iteration of the same character in ten years under the same company surprisingly succeed under Marvel's guidance and natural integration into the MCU after Civil War, they are back into the same routine but with a more solid footing to stand on (while the Black Cat/Silver Sable duo spin-off is also in the works).
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Sometimes people just like to criticize even before they watch the final product (what really?) and they would straight away put down the project just from knowing the basic premise ... just wait and see, please. No need to be negative before hand.
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a case for the motion capture adaptation of the alien:
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With how far the technology have come after being led by the passion of Andy Serkis since Lord of the Rings in Gollum and most recently in Caesar of the Planet of the Apes rebooted trilogy, it can capture all of the actor's performances from body languages to facial expressions and add any skin and extension that they so choose to create a believable, realistic and living and breathing character on the silver screen.
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The level of talent permeating from Tom Hardy has been proven time and time again on the silver screen specifically when he was masked in Mad Max, the Dark Knight Rises and most recently Dunkirk, shows just how great of an actor he is to perform under such
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Uncanny valley is still an obstacle that CG artists need to overcome when they specifically create humanoids or humans, but with how lifelike the apes are in the reboot, it is not far-fetched to believe they will be able to pull it off.
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The misconception against the medium still brings up the debate on whether what we see in the finished product it was all because of the CGI artists who do the brunt of the works or it was mainly the actors in the suit physically acting and effectively deliver their emotions with the help of digital cosmetics layered on top of them depending on the characters they played ... which in turns make the highest body of the industry, the Academy, frown upon the performers behind it and not recognized Andy Serkis' performances in the motion suit when he sorely deserves it especially as Caesar.
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Cast
Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate, ...
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source: begin production, motion capture, behind the scenes & characters breakdown
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