Venom movie is still in the works, Variety is reporting that Gary Ross, the man recently charged with writing a new draft of the equally inauspicious Spider-Man 4 (and writer of an odd collection of mixed results, including Big, Pleasantville, Mr. Baseball, and Dave), has been hired to write an antihero take on the shiny, ebon villain:

Venom, an archenemy of the webslinger in the Marvel Comics series, will be transformed into an antihero who becomes a defender of the innocent.

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