8 Spider-Man Movies Sony Should Be Making Instead Of Venom

2) Agent Venom

The Venom movie will invariably focus on Eddie Brock’s version of the character, the first and most famous incarnation of the villain. However, if Sony looked to a different take of the character for inspiration, a lot of the inherent problems with the film would be fixed. It would also give a proper go at a character who has so far appeared twice on film but who has been underused both times.

In Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man, Flash Thompson is presented as just the generic high school bully, but in the comics he grows into a friend of Peter’s and an all-round interesting character. After losing his legs in the Iraq War, Thompson volunteers to be bonded with the Venom symbiote by the military. Going by the name of Agent Venom, he is the first person to control the alien entity, although this is something he struggles with regularly.

Flash’s Venom would be a much stronger leading man than Brock’s, as a disabled former soldier suffering from PTSD is a much meatier character than a disgraced photographer, wouldn’t you say?