With a Comic-Con panel from Insomniac Games scheduled for tomorrow, the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 studio has begun drumming up excitement early with a new interview and screenshot from Entertainment Weekly. Venom is the focus of this latest marketing beat, with a new image showing off the villain's symbiotic skin and long tongue. It can be viewed above.
In the interview, senior creative director Bryan Intihar speaks of fearing casting the role of Venom due to the importance of it and how people would have an opinion on it. However, coincidentally, Candyman actor Tony Todd had submitted an audition tape for the role at the same time Intihar heard a few of his lines in a trailer for the 2021 version of the film.
"Everything we talked about [with] Venom — that sense of strength, that sense of fear, that sense of overwhelming, so different from Peter — Tony embraces that completely in the performance," Intihar explained.
More news and announcements are expected out of tomorrow's Symbiotic Relationships panel at Comic-Con, with a story trailer out of Hall H seeming likely. What do you hope to see? Speculate away in the comments below.
[source ew.com]
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I love everything Bryan is saying but the big part of Venom and why he's scary and why he was such a personal rogue to Peter was his host Eddie Brock. When Bryan announced that it's not Eddie who's Venom in this, I was actually quite disappointed.
If it's the obvious Harry choice, a choice that was done in Ultimate cartoon that nobody liked, then that would be extremely lame and automatically make him not scary or intimidating, because it would be the "best friend controlled by Alien" trope instead of 2 forces of nature that combine in their shared hatred and want to destory Peter Parker's life.
Just my 2 cents.
@Itachi2099 probably going to be kraven
Tongue's looking real good 😍🥵
Looks dope! Looking forward to more gameplay
@Itachi2099 So far it seems it's going to be... both of those tropes? Because in the reveal trailer Kraven sounds like he is teaming up with Venom(Unless the dialogue was switched around like other trailers do).
Man, he looks so good!
I really hope we can play as venom in spider-man 2, and there's venom stand alone title (like miles morale) in the future
@wiiware Lethal Protector! Although without Brock I’m not sure how that’d work. :/
God damn Venom looks absolutely incredible can't wait for the trailer ^__^
I think it's a good thing that Eddie Brock isn't Venom. A lot of his recent appearances have been more of a anti-hero and Insomniac seem to want Venom to be an out and out villain. I think it also rules out him been playable too because it's hard to make him a scary villain if players have fun playing as him.
Plus it leaves the door open for Eddie to turn up later and have a Venom spin off game.
Tony Todd is a great choice for voicing Venom!
Now this is Venom!
My man look FREAKY
@glassmusic I hope the venom game will be like prototype, where venom can eat people to get power or clue lol. I don't think sony want to make gory games like that with spider-man ip though
Man I miss prototype, I hope activision make the 3rd game with the original protagonist (alex mercer). Or at least remaster the 1st game with 4K and 60 fps.
@wiiware
I always thought that Prototype and Infamous games were in some cases slept on and both deserve fitting sequels or remasters. They are similar games that have the same misunderstood anti-hero trope. I always preferred Infamous but Prototype is great too.
I'm still disappointed that it's not Eddie, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it once I play it.
@KaijuKaiser I think this may end up happening. In Spectacular Spider-Man Kraven gets so obsessed with defeating Spider-Man that he forces a doctor to give him powers. Something similar could happen here.
I’d be more excited if this was like Amazing Spider-Man and you played as Venom too. That’d be so much cooler than playing as Miles Morales too.
@wiiware Venom ate people in the T rated The Amazing Spider Man on the PS2.
After the post-credits scene in the first game, I can't see how it would be anyone but Harry, which I'm fine with. Eddie hasn't been a villain in a long time, and the Venom movies have definitely diluted his character.
Man he looking beefy 😋
@MikeOrator Prototype was such a fun brutal game. I was going to choose Infamous over it when I was young but I didn't have a PS3 at the time.
There’s a part of me hoping they throw Carnage into the story towards the end game as a surprise final villain. And it requires Venom to work with Miles and Peter to defeat him.
@Jaz007 Hmm, so maybe if insomniac can make it with no blood we can have venom eating criminals? Fine by me 😃
@MikeOrator I played and finished prototype 1 on xbox 360, I think alex mercer is full on villain. I means he's a biological weapon afterall, at least that's how I played it, kidnapping innocent civilian to the top of the building before eating them lol.
I have prototype 2 on my ps5 but only played the opening scenes, the protagonist is way less fun than alex mercer because his family is killed by the virus, so it's kind of hypocrisy if he (I) killed innocent people compared to alex mercer.
I just hope we can get some across the spiderverse skins in the game. I'd love to play a game in that animation style, but some character skins - similar to the comic book suit in the first game - would be the next best thing. Once i unlocked that i didnt use anything else
@wiiware From memory, doesn't alex mercer become the villain in the second game
@wiiware To start. He ate anyone and everyone. Including a child who wanted his balloon back 😂
Todd McFarlane must be proud.
@Jaz007 Lool, that's definitely evil 😂
@Rob_230 Yes, which I don't like. Activision got a great reason to reset mercer power (like samus in metroid games), mercer get destroyed in the end of first game and become sort of single cell organism/black slime, it will be cool if in the second game we can evolve mercer to become more powerful like in the first game.
That tongue looks so good!
Why people continue to buy these bland games that are basically total conversion mods for Batman Arkham games is beyond me.
So basically people enjoy an over decade old gameplay loop that's been overused to death, a generic superhero story and characters, blatantly plagiarised (and worse implemented) combat mechanics?
Woah, millions of flies can't be wrong either eh?
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Good night and have a good life,
Sincerely
Micheal J. Anton
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