Fan Plot Monday: Venom

Every Monday, three of the endlessly creative minds at Geek Motivation write a movie plot. We write plots for future movies, we write plots for hypothetical movies, we even write plots for movies that have already been released, but sucked. After that, we post a poll on our Twitter account for you to vote on your favorite. Welcome to Fan Plot Monday, and enjoy our takes on Venom!

 

GRACIE POWELL

I imagine the opening showing the perfect “dark and stormy night” type of scene. After seeing scenes of the planet, we are introduced to a cavern, and here we witness the hatching of Venom and his siblings. Fast forward a short amount of time. We see a dark yet unsuspecting figure land onto Venom’s home planet. This figure goes on the hunt for a symbiote. All the others manage to get away from him, except Venom.

As Venom is taken from his home planet, you can sense the fear that he has within him. Venom starts out this journey like an innocent child, having very little idea of what is going on. Once he arrives on this new planet, the same figure that took him begins to bond with him. This being his first host, the bond goes as deep as the soul. Venom is invigorated, feeling this crazy sensation in every cell. Seeing the icy world around him, Venom is kind of amazed. However, his new host begins to commit countless murders all around the planet. In the beginning, he would ask “why must we do this?” With the constant reply of the host being, “we have too.” Any questions or thoughts between the Venom and his host eventually end, only to be replaced by aggressive banter and the screams of his countless victims. Bringing about constant bloodshed wherever they go, they commit a full-on genocide of planet. Through it all, Venom transforms into the rage-filled, death-addicted being many on Earth know him as. He starts out his journey as mostly innocent, but when his first host is finished with him, he has been transformed into something dark. Towards the end of their genocide, they are met by Venom’s brethren, who have the goal of stopping him from contaminating the worlds around him. This battle puts Venom to the ultimate test and remains most powerful. His limbs and tentacles tear others apart flashing his sharp fangs and large tongue in a menacing grin. Despite this, he is eventually brought down because of the numbers against him. The remaining creatures of the planet step in and discover his intolerance of fire and sound, and use that against him.

Once imprisoned, we see a quick flash of large amount of time Venom is in prison. The anger and hate that begins to boil inside of him. Hearing the voices of the many that he’s killed, he craves to hear them once more. He tries to escape, but without a host he is too weak until one day his prison begins to shutter.

Once Venom escapes his prison, he finds that he is in type of gladiator match. With all these possible hosts around him, Venom goes wild, starting with the poor soul across from him in the ring. He soon comes to reject the host, and with all his held back aggression, he accidentally kills him. The crowd in awe only wish for more violence to gamble against. One after another, Venom eliminates his hosts. There was a time were he accepted a host, tried to escape, and was almost free. However, he was taken down once more by his weaknesses. A new yet smaller prison was no match for him since he learned how to escape his previous containment. Soon, his only care was eliminating those who put him in captivity. One day the ground began to shake thunderously, explosive sensations occurring from within the planet. Then, outside his little rock, he hears others in panic. He’s heard it before, but this was different. The planet was dying. After what seemed like hours go by, our main character experiences some kind of blackout, only to be seen by the viewers safely in his prison floating about in space. His prison morphed into the perfect sized meteor…headed into our atmosphere. Once it lands into a nearby body of water, all the viewers can see is Lady Liberty herself, watching over the night.

End Credits Idea:
Venom is in complete shock and wonder over the new world around him. He moves his shape around to discover a being like he’s never seen before, even the viewers don’t get a chance to see the man’s face. Venom follows him to a stopping point. Once he lays his bag down, Venom gets inside and covers the soft fibers he finds all too easy. Venom’s thirst for a worthy new host will finally be quenched.

 

ADEL NAQVI

ACT I: Movie opens on a rainy rooftop. A dying Eddie Brock is laying naked, with his back in a black goo, barely conscious. A few feet away from him lies the bloody, lifeless body of Peter Parker, beaten to the extent of no longer being recognized. The iconic red and blue suit is torn to shreds. Brock stares into the night sky, its darkness impenetrable, floating in and out of consciousness. A few moments pass. Something red starts seeping through the remains of the Venom symbiote around him. He traces its origin back to Parker. Blood. The blood starts clotting, collecting around Parker, and Brock hears a screeching wail, followed by an unrecognizable silhouette rising from Parker’s body. Brock spots two big white eyes peering into his own. He wakes up, sweating and alone, in his single room apartment in Manhattan. A nightmare. He takes a moment to catch his breath and his eyes fall on the bottles of booze beginning to pile up on his kitchen counter. Eventually, Brock gets up and gets ready to go to his job as a daytime janitor and maintenance worker. Walking the busy morning streets of New York, Bugle articles are spotted with the headline “10 years since passing of Peter Parker”, others saying “10 year death anniversary commemoration to be held in Queens”. Brock hustles past them, and into his workplace – Fisk Industries.

ACT II: After a whole day of maintaining the building, Eddie walks into the basement to finish up his work day. Despite having been down here multiple times a week, over the course of several years, he only now spots a wooden door. It’s open. He walks into a pitch black room, his eyes take a moment to adjust to the darkness. When they do, he loses his breath and his knees buckle from underneath him. It’s the chapel…THAT chapel. He recognizes the altar where he, all those years ago, prayed for the death of Parker, the same altar, where his prayers were answered, where he was bestowed – nay – cursed, with the power that would one day rip Peter from this world. The altar where he became Venom. Brock begins hyperventilating, pearls of sweat start forming on his forehead. He forces himself up and moves for the door. Just as he reaches it, he feels a cold shudder down his spine. He turns and catches a momentary glimpse of a silhouette with big, white eyes lurking in the shadows. He closes the door behind him and collapses on the other side.

ACT III: Brock is now in a state of emotional turmoil. He runs up and out of the building. It’s now dark outside. The streets are clear. Eerily clear. It’s New York, the streets are never supposed to be clear. Brock runs. Dark clouds have started to form in the skies. A storm is coming. Eddie runs all the way to the cemetery where Peter is buried. It’s dark, but Eddie finds his grave. How could he not? The gravestone is inscribed with the words “Peter Parker. Father. Husband. Hero”. The sky bursts, and the crackling lighting illuminates the graveyard. Peter’s grave is open. Nothing but a hole in the ground. Brock panics. He looks around and sees big, white eyes approaching him. The silhouette is now a clear figure. Venom? No. Smaller. Muscular build, yet slim enough to be fast and agile. It has a well formed head, housing an enormous jaw. It has a mouth with no lips, and teeth the size of kitchen knives. And it’s red. Blood red. The towering figure, whilst similar, is not Venom. “You took him from us”, it says, in a screeching wail. “You stole him from us”, even louder this time. Brock collapses. A scream pierces the night. Silence.

 

DANIELLE GONZALEZ

The movie opens with a quick cut to Eddie Brock waking up to take his medicine and get the newspaper. On the counter, there’s a stack of ignored cancer pamphlets. We see him smile and kiss his wife after he reads the title,“Eddie Brock puts Sin Eater in jail.” We then see him walk to his job at the Daily Bugle, and into the building. His colleagues congratulate him on catching the culprit. As he’s working, he gets called into J. Jonah Jameson’s office, Jameson clearly upset after Peter Parker leaves the room. He goes on to tell Brock that there was another killing, and hands him a picture Peter took of Spider-Man in a black suit taking down the villain. On top of that, the person who confessed to Eddie was a compulsive liar who would often confess to crimes they haven’t done. In a roar of anger at the disgrace this huge mistake has brought to the Daily Bugle, and that Spider-Man of all people caught the real culprit, Jameson fires Eddie.

To make ends meet, Eddie is forced to work for a tabloid, and we see him slowly falling into a depression. There is a montage of his mornings after getting fired that show him getting weaker and weaker, eventually needing a cane, often coughing up blood. This culminates in an argument with his wife, calling him a loser and walking out on him. Brock is left in tears. Having lost everything he goes to church and prays for his sins, crying and saying that if there isn’t a sign, he will jump off the Brooklyn bridge. We pan up to see Spider-Man land in the belfry of the church. From Eddie’s perspective, we hear Spider-Man talking to himself, saying that he nearly killed Sin Eater and that this suit is getting in his head. We see his shadow as he struggles to tear off the suit. There is a black substance that oozes down the wall of the cathedral and creeps toward Brock. Brock tries to escape, but before he can, the puddle lunges toward him. It creeps up his body as he screams, and the screen goes black.

We then see Brock as he wakes up, drenched in sweat with a look of fear, and then confusion. He sees black veins creeping from under his shirt. Suddenly, his alarm for work goes off, and when he looks back, the veins are gone. As he goes about his morning routine, he realizes he feels much better. When he looks at himself in the mirror, he sees more defined muscles. He scarfs down breakfast, doesn’t take his pills, and doesn’t need his cane. He goes through his day in a much better mood than before, but when a co-worker makes a joke about the Sin Eater article, Eddie snaps for a second and pins him to the wall. The bustle of the office stops as everyone looks at Eddie. He gets ahold of himself, slowly lowering the cowering man down. On his way home, a man comes from out of an alleyway and attempts to mug Eddie with a knife. Again, Eddie snaps, but this time angrily beats the thief to the brink of death before stopping himself. He begins to hear voices in his head telling him to finish the guy off, as black tendrils weave together into a suit around Eddie’s arms and legs. Eddie realizes he has picked up the thief’s knife and is holding it to the thief’s throat. His hands starting to shake, Eddie drops the knife and runs home.

Back at his home, Eddie turns on the news seeing that Spider-Man, back in his iconic red and blue suit, is back off to saving the city. Brock realizes that this change has something to do with Spider-Man and puts it together that this black suit was the same one the wall crawler was wearing in the previous weeks. This makes him even angrier at getting Spider-Man’s leftovers. He decides that maybe he can use his new strength to be a better hero then Spider-Man. The next night, Eddie decides to patrol the streets, stopping robberies by beating all the assailants unconscious. He realizes that he has super human strength and can become almost unnoticeable in the shadows. He sees a fire break out a few blocks away and runs in to save the people inside.

Inside the burning building, Eddie finds a woman trapped under rubble. He lifts it off her, but when she sees the black suit and the black veins creeping up his face she screams and tries to run away. He reaches out to stop her from running further inside the building and discovers that he can create webbing out of the suit’s black material. Despite his efforts, the woman resists the pull and eventually the roof above her collapses. Shocked at her reaction, he runs out of the building, but the police arriving on scene just see a monster and open fire.

Hurt, physically and mentally, he goes back to his apartment, swearing that he will kill everyone who has hurt him, including Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson. As he makes the decision, the black spreads to fully enclose his arms and legs, and part of his face. He then goes on a rampage throughout the city, ending up at the Daily Bugle in Jameson’s office. He’s about to kill Jameson when Spider-Man enters. They battle it out, but after Venom gets the upper hand and is about to kill Spider-Man, Brock sees through his now torn costume that it is in fact Peter. Seeing that it is a kid, he can’t bring himself to finish the job. He finally realizes the dark power that he possesses and acknowledges that he’s been consumed by his anger. Venom, sensing this “weakness” tries to fully consume Brock. We see an uncertain Peter as he watches Brock struggle with Venom, attempting to take off the suit as Venom takes over. As he does this, his hands turn into claws and Venom’s face completely forms around Brock’s head, screeching before taking Jameson into the sewers.

Spider-Man follows him and sees Venom webbing an unconscious Jameson to the wall. There is a fight where we see Venom utilizing the dark shadows to blend in, sneaking up behind Spider-Man a few times. However, he isn’t as smart as Peter Parker. Spider-Man makes him use his webs and tendrils by swinging around him. With each use, the volume of Venom’s main body decreases. While Spider-Man is confusing and weakening Venom, he talks to Brock, telling him to take over. Eventually, we see Brock fighting with Venom internally while Peter is fighting him externally. Together, they defeat him, getting the suit safely off Brock and tossing it into the rushing stream of sewage.

A couple weeks have passed and Peter Parker is visiting a weak and now bald Brock at the hospital. It ends with a shot of the sewer as a black liquid slowly surfaces, and small black tendrils creep out from the pool.

 

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