Comedy, horror and an unmasked Tom Hardy How ‘Venom’s’ director built a fresh ‘Spider Man’ spinoff
over 5 years in LA Times
In an edit bay on the Sony Pictures lot, Ruben Fleischer looked outwardly calm but was clearly feeling some heat. At 43, the director was just weeks away from the release of the biggest film of his career: the dark comic-book movie “Venom,” which Sony is banking on to launch a series of interconnected...