Following their breakout moment with Final Destination: Bloodlines, Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein are eyeing to direct an animated Venom movie for Sony, Deadline can confirm.
No word on the plot of the new film. There’s not yet a writer attached. Amy Pascal, Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach are expected to return as producers following their involvement with the live-action Venom films, as is its star, Tom Hardy, in some capacity.
Kicking off with 2018’s Venom, directed by Ruben Fleischer, the franchise centers on Eddie Brock, an investigative journalist who becomes an antagonist to Spider-Man after an alien symbiote bonds to his body. The character, created by writer Bill Michelinie and artist Todd McFarlane, first appeared on the page in 1988’s Amazing Spider-Man No. 300 and prior to Hardy’s involvement in the franchise, appeared on screen in Sam Raimi’s Amazing Spider-Man 3, with Topher Grace portraying.
Venom is the most successful of Sony’s standalone Spider-Man efforts centered on villain characters from the MCU. Th first film grossed over $856 million worldwide and led to successful sequels Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Venom: The Last Dance in 2021 and 2024, respectively.
Lipovsky and Stein are riding a moment of major heat after directing Bloodlines, which last year broke out as the highest-grossing and best-reviewed installment in New Line’s Final Destination series with over $317M global. Since then, they’ve attached to co-write a new Gremlins movie alongside Chris Columbus, with other upcoming projects set up so far including The Earthling at Columbia Pictures, Long Lost at Universal, and The Traveler at Paramount.
THR was first to report today’s Venom news.