“I never fully understood this character”

While he is in full promotion for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Sam Raimi He was also able to talk about a lot of his past work, including of course the Spider-Man trilogy at Sony Pictures. dorm again spider man 3the director returned to his stormy relationship with a character poison.

After repeating why He didn’t want to put Venom in SpiderMan 3Al-Rimi focused more on the real reasons for this He could never fully appreciate a character like Venomunlike all the other characters that appear in Spider-Man comics.

Speaking to Uproxx, Raimi also confirmed that he hasn’t even seen the two new films with Tom Hardy:

“It was actually more than anything else that I didn’t fully understand the character. It was not close to my heart. The best thing I love about Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s Spider-Man is that They created characters that I can relate to and understand well. Although they are confused, like Norman Osborne, they still have some goodness in their hearts. They want to do the right thing to him, or like Peter Parker. Jonah Jameson also has goodness in his heart“.

Then Al-Rimi added:When I read about Venom, which I hadn’t read as a kid, I had to try and catch up with him when they wanted to add it to the movie. I didn’t realize enough humanity in that character to be able to properly identify him. This is really what it is all about“.

from a movie like spider man 3Which not quite everyone condemns, it’s clear how Raimi felt closer to him than the character of The Sandman, who had to be the film’s only villain at first. Even Harry Osborne should have been neutral in the story.

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