I've said something along these lines before, but after hearing news tonight about the Venom movie moving forward a little more, I'm refinining my Spider-man movie theories. Which I shall now post here to check back against because that'll be easier than tracking down an old Tweet.

Spider-man 4: J. Jonah Jameson hires Alistair Smythe to develop the Spider-Slayers program and involves Mac Gargan (Bruce Campbell) as Scorpion. By the end of the movie, Mac is defeated, unScorpioned and has a run-in with the symbiote a la modern Spider-man comics. This parlays into the Venom spin-off with Mac Gargan in the title role to make up for the fact that Eddie Brock, the other best-known Venom, was already killed off in Spider-man 3. This also gives the added benefit of Bruce Campbell starring in the Venom flick, which therefore will be fun no matter how hard it does or doesn't suck. Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are currently penning the Venom flick, and judging by the trailers for Zland, they're frenetic and inane enough to be a good match for Campbell's style.

And while on the subject, I still say Black Mask and Penguin for Nolan-Batman 3.