‘Venom’ Animated Movie in the Works at Sony

(Left) Director Adam Stein and Director Zach Lipovsky in New Line Cinema’s ‘Final Destination Bloodlines,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Eric Milner. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Right) Venom in 1994’s ‘Spider-Man: The Animated Series’. Photo: Marvel Entertainment Group

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein will make a ‘Venom’ animated movie.
Tom Hardy is aboard to produce.
The movie is at an early stage.

Having managed to get a movie trilogy out of slavering, ravenous Spider-Man character Venom, Sony is looking to keep the franchise alive in the animated realm.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the studio has hired ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein to develop an animated take on the character.

“The world has enough Superheroes.”

Release Date: Oct 5, 2018

Run Time: 1 hr 52 min

Budget: $116,000,000

The directors have become an in-demand duo since ‘Bloodlines’ helped to shock the horror movie series back to life with $315 million in box office receipts.

Related Article: Movie Review: ‘Venom: The Last Dance’

What’s the story of Venom?

Venom, created by writer Bill Michelinie and artist Todd McFarlane, was famously introduced as a villain in 1988’s ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ No. 300, and quickly became a fan-favorite as well as one of his arch-nemeses. He got his first solo comic in 1993.

The character then made his big-screen debut in Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man 3’, played by Topher Grace.

Sony produced three ‘Venom’ movies starring Tom Hardy as down-on-his-luck journalist Eddie Brock, who bonds with the symbiote. The eponymous first arrived in 2018, followed by sequels ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ in 2021 and 2024’s ‘Venom: The Last Dance.’

Hardy is aboard the new movie as a producer alongside live-action team Amy Pascal, Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, alongside Kelly Marcel, who wrote on all three of the movies and directed ‘The Last Dance.’

What will the new movie be about?

(L to R) Director Adam Stein and Director Zach Lipovsky in New Line Cinema’s ‘Final Destination Bloodlines,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Eric Milner. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

There’s no word on a plot for the animated movie at this early stage –– Sony is in the process of opening a writers’ room to develop ideas, run by Lipovsky and Stein.

The pair are also at work with Chris Columbus on a new ‘Gremlins’ movie. They are also developing to direct the original thriller ‘Long Lost’, described as ‘What Lies Beneath’ meets ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and set up at Universal with Amblin Entertainment producing.