Josh Trank helmed the popular 2012, Chronicle. Due to the film’s success, Trank had a lot of opportunities presented to him. Long before the 2018 Tom Hardy-led Venom film, Trank was in talks to bring the Spider-Man villain/anti-hero to life. Unfortunately, this never happened. Apparently, franchise producer Matt Tolmach was not a fan.
This Venom film was a “hard-R Venom [film] in the vein of The Mask”, according to Comicbook.com, taken from an extensive profile on Trank at Polygon. Trank delved in Tolmach’s “disdain” for the treatment, which took two weeks:
“I didn’t like how Matt Tolmach was coming at me in that situation, because it felt very kind of authoritative. Well, if you don’t like what I’m doing, and you’re telling me that I have to do something along the lines of what you want, and you’re going to tell it to me in this way — sorry, but I have other things I can be doing.”
Trank did end up teaming with Hardy for his upcoming film Capone, which will arrive next week on VOD. Would you have liked to see Trank’s R-rated Venom?
Source: CB
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