Todd McFarlane, the creator of Venom, expresses his disappointment with how the character has been portrayed in the recent Sony films, stating that his original vision for Venom was much darker and more villainous. He believes that an R-rated adaptation would have better captured the essence of the character.
Todd McFarlane, a legend among comic book fans, is best known as the co-founder of Image Comics and the creator of one of the most popular characters of the 1990s, Spawn, which was adapted into both a major film and an acclaimed animated TV series. However, before he became an independent comics icon, he got his start working at Marvel Comics.
There, he made a name for himself by creating the dynamic artwork for Venom, a character that many fans felt was a largely disappointing interpretation of the symbiote. Venom has since been portrayed better in his own trilogy as part of the Sony Spider-Man Universe, but how would McFarlane have handled adapting his creation?At MEGACON Orlando, McFarlane stated, “Venom’s not a good guy, like in my brain, like they turned Venom into kind of a good guy after I left Marvel, right? So in my mind, he was a villain, and then I left…It was when I had my back turned that all of a sudden…Venom’s a good guy. And so I think my tendencies are always to go sort of dark and serious. Would have been an R-rated movie if they had said, ‘Todd, putting you in charge.’”McFarlane makes a good point. While Marvel Comics eventually turned Venom into more of an anti-hero, there’s a malevolence and ferocity that made the original depiction of the character so impactful. Obviously, building a franchise around a straight-up villain is a risky move, so it’s understandable that Sony emphasized the heroic elements of the character. And of course, they removed his more brutal, violent tendencies to land a PG-13 rating, making it accessible to a wider audience. Still, while the Venom trilogy was a box office success, fans of the source material are still waiting for a more faithful cinematic adaptation of the character. There are rumblings of Venom appearing in an MCU Spider-Man film later on down the line; perhaps with the success of, Marvel Studios will have the guts to give us a proper R-rated version of the character. McFarlane is clearly not thrilled with how Venom has been portrayed in the movies, but he understands the reasoning behind the decisions and is diplomatic in his assessment of the films. Tom Hardy, you know, sort of did a cool thing. I got to meet him for the first time, you know, about a month ago or something. And super cool.
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