Even with that in mind, I just don't feel like this is going to work. It needs more set-up than what they've given the concept (you can't introduce the symbiote and then more symbiotes in the same movie without diluting the significance of the original), and if this particular teaser is supposed to give an overall feel for the movie as a whole, I expect a flop.
It may even be a good flop to us fans of the comics, but a flop 'twill be.
I'd gladly disagree.
I feel like the story in
Planet of the Symbiotes really hits at the core of what makes the Venom Symbiote different than the other ones (as it goes into mountains of detail about how it's different than its bretheren in how it wants to
BOND with a host, rather than use them up like a husk). Take that along with the starting framework given by
Lethal Protector of Eddie leaving NYC and not really feeling like he has a place and trying to be a hero in his own way in SF, and I think that there's PLENTY of opportunity for differentiating the Symbiote, without needing to linger on the direct Spider-Man-based origin story. On top of that, you've got the setup of the evil corporation subjecting him to experiments and creating other Symbiotes spawned from Venom to dive into a story centered all around the Venom Symbiote and its emotions (the psychic scream is what triggers the others to come find it),
especially because
Planet of the Symbiotes ties that all together with him firmly establishing
THEIR identity as Venom.
I honestly felt more hesitant about it before reading those arcs and trying to think about how you could make a film work given a questionable level of allowable connection to Spider-Man.
* Given the things that you hear in Tom Hardy's voice over in the teaser, it seems like it's hitting on all those big points that I think can define Venom outside of just his relationship with Spidey, which is also the trajectory that those comics take to establish Venom to stand on his own. It helps to paint Venom as a cosmic entity that's more than just a muscle-bound black Spider-Man, which I think is probably the most important thing.
*since there're various levels of Spider-Man not/maybe/yes being in the film (not connected to the MCU or adjuncts to the film like Agents of SHIELD or Maybe we'll see them cross over). I'm assuming no until hearing otherwise, but it'd be rad if there was a loose reference to the costume in Infinity War, or we get some other connection to Spidey & the suit just in Venom.
Either way, I think that this film can work really well given just those two storylines, without needing to be an origin film, but still establishing Venom's origin.
tl;dr – the black suit origin feels like it establishes Venom & Spider-Man's relationship, but these two stories feel like they they establish the larger Venom-as-his-own-anti-hero origins that lets the character stand on its own – which is the biggest and most important thing it needs to be able to do.
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