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Originally Posted by kylactus

It’s a real shame, but the Tom hardy Venom is starting to feel like the dolph lungron punisher to me. Like a random sci-fi flick about a symbiot landed on Sony’s desk and some exec was like “ change the main characters name to eddy, make the alien black, and bam! We’ll call it venom!” Without spider man, at least for the origin story, you’d be hard pressed to sell me a venom movie. I love the character, and Tom hardy is awesome (I’d rather have him do wolverine in the MCU, but what ever) but I’m sorry, Venom needs spider man, shit they share DNA for god sake! It would be like doing an X 23 movie without acknowledging wolverines existence.

Wasn't Venom originally supposed to be in some way related to Sony's 2017 Space Horror Alien clone movie "Life"? Keep in mind that merch licensing still mainly goes through Marvel. And Marvel was not real thrilled at Sony's Venom side projects. So they likely used the R rating as an excuse to tamp down on the licensed merch. They've been known to do that (see "Fan4stic") If Marvel doesn't have faith in the movie they will limit the merch to limit the brand damage.