Sony’s cinema side is just as hard-working as the gaming side. Sony held a panel at the CinemaCon event and officially announced both the third Venom film and the sequel to the next generation of Ghostbusters, Afterlife. Sony, which continues to expand its marvel universe in a really strange way, has positioned Tom Hardy and Venom as flag carriers. Morbius’s great failure, it seems, did not make Sony back down.
Afterlife, directed by Ivan Reitman, the director of the original Ghostbusters films; and Jason Reitman, son, was a fan-pleasing film, unlike Venom and Morbius. Afterlife, which was included in the story as the third film in 2016, also deserved a sequel, with the remake coming out in 2016 completely ignoring it. A release date has not yet been announced for ghostbusters’ fourth film as a canon and fifth overall. The third Venom film is also currently in limbo.
Another Spider-Man co-character, El Muerto, is set to hit the big screen under the Sony roof. The biggest shortcoming of the studio, which together with Morbius wants to create a Sinister Six of its own, is Spider-Man, as you can imagine. I’m very hopeful about Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2, but Venom and the Sony Marvel movies that follow make me curious about other things.
