{"id":559276,"date":"2025-11-09T11:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/559276\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:49:12","slug":"ruben-fleischer-shares-his-take-on-why-venom-resonated-with-fans-when-sonys-other-spin-offs-flopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/559276\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Fleischer Shares His Take On Why VENOM Resonated With Fans When Sony’s Other Spin-offs Flopped"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Venom movies never really received much in the way of critical acclaim (they scored 31%, 58%, and 40%, respectively, on Rotten Tomatoes), they were successful at the box office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first instalment, released in 2018, remains the biggest hit with a massive\u00a0$856.1 million worldwide. Had Venom: Let There Be Carnage not had to contend with COVID, and superhero\u2014and Sony\u2013fatigue wasn’t such an issue for Venom: The Last Dance, perhaps those sequels would have ended their runs somewhere in the same ballpark.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both ended up around\u00a0the $500 million mark, so they weren’t exactly flops and were still far greater successes than box office bombs like Morbius, Madame Web,\u00a0and Kraven the Hunter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite those movies featuring star-studded casts (the latter even tried to tap into\u00a0Deadpool & Wolverine’s success with an R-rating), they never came close to reaching the same heights as the Lethal Protector.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Talking to The Playlist<\/a>, Venom director\u00a0Ruben Fleischer was asked for his thoughts on why those spin-offs didn’t resonate with audiences in quite the same way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t really speak to too much because I haven\u2019t seen all the other ones,”<\/strong>\u00a0Fleischer started. “But I think something that people love about ‘Venom’\u00a0is that he\u2019s funny. You know what I mean? It doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously. It\u2019s kind of a ridiculous premise that you have an alien living inside you and sharing space with you.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I kind of leaned into the\u2014I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s really body horror\u2014but ‘All of Me’ with Steve Martin was a big inspiration. ‘An American Werewolf in London’\u00a0was another one,” <\/strong>the filmmaker continued.\u00a0“Both are tonally on the more humorous side of things. I think ‘Venom’\u00a0is darker among the superhero franchises, just in terms of the way the character looks and his attitude.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“But he\u2019s also really, really funny. So Tom Hardy was able to realize that wonderfully. And I think the charisma of Tom and of Venom himself is largely what has made it so popular among audiences,” <\/strong>he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pushed on whether he believes Sony’s failed attempt to launch its own Marvel Universe might have been a problem,\u00a0Fleischer mused, “I\u2019m really proud of the way that the movie turned out, and the process was a collaboration, like all studio movies are. I think anyone who claims from any of the studios that they\u2019re making $200 million movies and they\u2019re singular voices is probably not totally accurate.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

After Kraven the Hunter, Sony decided to put its live-action spin-off plans on hold to focus on Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. However, a Spider-Noir series is coming to Prime Video next year, and it’s already drawn the ire of fans for renaming that alternate universe Peter Parker, “Ben Reilly.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why do you think Venom worked where\u00a0Morbius, Madame Web,\u00a0and Kraven the Hunter failed? Let us know in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Venom movies never really received much in the way of critical acclaim (they scored 31%, 58%,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,178442,6767,16,15,36104],"class_list":{"0":"post-559276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-ruben-fleischer","11":"tag-spider-man","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-venom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115519590582504479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}