With recent rumors of Josh Trank (‘Chronicle’) being attached to direct it seems Sony is moving forward with the solo movie for Eddie Brock. There had been a script in development ever since ‘Spider-Man 3’ but worry not about it having any form of ties to that movie at all. With the reboot of Peter Parker’s story they will apparently be doing the same with Brock. TheHollywood recently spoke with Avi Arad and Matthew Tolmach about the project.
“It’s an Eddie Brock story,” said Arad. “We want to be as close to the comics as possible. Especially in Eddie Brock’s story. But again, pseudo-science is becoming science. All these tidbits about webs, artificial webs, is a huge industry now. Spiderwebs have unique qualities that will be huge for communications, fibers, and so forth. So we have taken the approach that we want to make the huge amazing movie about Eddie.” Tolmach adds, “He was a journalist. He had the wrong story, he got in trouble for it, he got fired. The whole essence to us for the Marvel characters. Stay close to the bible, stay close to the emotional story, and the rest is fun.”
And while this will be a standalone movie (cue fanboys crying about how we can’t have this without Spidey wearing the symbiote first) it will apparently have some ties to ‘The Amazing Spider-man’. Tolmach said “Look for the worlds to make sense with one another.”