Gary Ross to Rewrite, Direct “Venom” Movie
Filmmaker Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) will write and potentially direct “Venom” spin-off, based on the villain from “Spider-Man 3.”
In the comic series, Venom is a parasite alien that bonds with Peter Parker and later his newsroom rival.
Back in 2006, Venom was introduced to the fans in “Spider-Man 3” as Topher Grace portrayed the evil Spider-Man look-alike, humanly known as Eddie Brock. Considered one of the greatest threats to humanity in the Spider-Man universe, the villain is a sentient alien with a liquid-like form which requires a human host to survive. By bonding itself to the host, it gives its host enhanced power to form a super-villain.
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Gary Ross will be directing the drama about the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.
Maguire would play Jack Greenberg, who, as an idealistic lawyer fresh out of law school, joined with NAACP Legal Defense Fund head and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to win a Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in American schools illegal.
The project, based on Greenberg’s memoirs “Crusaders in the Courts,” was originally developed by Cooper at New Line. That studio let it go after New Line was absorbed by Warner Bros.Ross will next direct Universal drama “The Free State of Jones,” about rebellion in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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