Nerd Processor

Why ‘Venom’ Is the Best Kind of Box Office Poison

How Sony turned a Spider-Man movie without Spider-Man into an unlikely success

Rob Bricken
Published in
6 min readOct 11, 2018

--

Photo: Sony Pictures Entertainment

OnOn the list of clues suggesting we’ve all fallen into an alternate timeline where the entire world has gone wrong, the fact that a movie about a Spider-Man villain where Spider-Man is literally never…

--

--

Rob Bricken
OneZero

The former editor of io9.com, Rob Bricken has been a professional nerd since 2001. He also often cries at children's cartoons.