Sony Pictures continues to expand its Marvel characters universe with a new project: an animated Venom movie. This film, separate from the live-action saga with Tom Hardy, would be directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, responsible for Final Destination: Bloodlines. The initiative marks a shift toward animation to explore the popular symbiote, diversifying the studio's offerings beyond the traditional format.
The Leap to Animation: A New Field for Effects and Design 🎨
The animated format frees Venom from the limitations of live-action, allowing a symbiote design and its transformations to be more organic and extreme. Digital animation techniques facilitate large-scale action sequences and a smoother visual integration between the host and the alien parasite. This approach could aesthetically approach the visual freedom of the comics, where the black mass and tentacles are constant dynamic elements.
An Animated Venom to Avoid Getting Tom Hardy Covered in Black Digital Slime? 🤔
With this move, Sony seems to have found the definitive solution to the logistical problem of covering an actor with that amount of digital slime: simply draw it from the start. This saves hours in the makeup chair and avoids Hardy having to growl at a green dot in a motion capture suit. That said, the big question is whether the animated version will also have its own internal talk-show with debates between Eddie Brock and the symbiote. At least in cartoon form, the arguments will literally be speech bubbles.