The question of if the artist Venom is or is not the part of the MCU studio still lingers, but it may be better for it to be separate if only because Marvel’s studio already got the perfect Symbiote analog. The morally-complicated alien Symbiote who typically starts as part of the Spider-Man mythos will arrive in 2018 theaters for a solo story from Sony shooting of the artist Tom Hardy as an investigative journalist who becomes the hostmaster for the alien monster of the title.
The movie, which has been in development in some form or another as far back as Spider-Man 3 in 2007, had been planned along with Gina Prince-Blythewood’s Silver & Black as part of Sony’s spin-off universe of features based on tertiary Spider-Man characters before the deal was struck to reconnect Peter Parker’s relaunched adventures events to the official Marvel Cinematic Universe studio.
It remains unclear and unconfirmed whether or not Venom or any of these spin-off features will be officially connected to either Spider-Man or the MCU-proper, and suggestions insist that the decision may rest both on how the movies are received and yet-to-be-formed opinions of Marvel Cinematic Universe studio heavy-hitters like Kevin Feige.