Looks like the Amazing Spider-Man 2 spin offs, "Venom" and "Sinister Six" movies are shaping up as producers Matt Tolmach and Avi Arad spilled the beans about the Amazing Spider-Man 2 spin offs.
In an interview with SFX, Matt Tolmach talked about the Sinister Six movie:
"It's a challenge in every sense, obviously questions of traditional hero/villain dynamics have to be looked at. At the same time it's an awesome challenge, because some of the greatest characters are in fact villains, and how you construct that is so much fun. People love those bad characters if they're good bad characters, and love to watch them. And nobody's all good, nobody's all bad, and so where we end up with that story, I think, is a really awesome challenge, and we all smile when we think about what you can do. It's definitely a bad-ass group of people and I think it's going to be a ton of fun to watch them."
Meanwhile Avi Arad offered a few thoughts on Venom and how they plan to position him from villain to anti-hero noting that it doesn't matter if Eddie Brock or Flash Thompson is going to be inside the infamous symbiote costume:
"Venom hated only one guy - Spider-Man. He wasn't innately bad, he was a shortcut guy, not really into fighting hard for achievement. That's the Venom story. Can he also be a good guy? As you know, Venom was also called 'lethal defender of the innocent'. We had a great history with him, especially caring for the homeless, which is a very sensitive issue and something that many of us are very concerned with. Our villains all represent a different side of the misunderstood, and some of them unfortunately turned to the dark side. Venom happened to be a phenomenal character. With Eddie Brock, or if you do Flash Thompson, it doesn't matter who is going to be inside the suit - what's important is that a man like him is going to realize there comes a time when you wake up in the morning and say 'How did I get here? There must be a better way.'"
With Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) busy writing The Sinister Six and Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinker (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) working on Venom. It is clear that Sony is pushing forward with a Spider-Man Movie Universe.
Meanwhile the franchise will continue with the release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which swings into cinemas on April 18th in the UK and May 2nd in the States followed by The Amazing Spider-Man 3 in 2016 and The Amazing Spider-Man 4 in 2018.
