OK, so basically Sony is going to make a Venom movie. …OK. You know something? That’s fine. That could be watchable. Lord knows Sony is probably smarting at the way that it had to kiss up to Marvel to get Spider-Man to appear in the MCU; they want to make some money of their own, they’ve got the rights to Venom, it might not suck. And, hey, it can back into the MCU the way that Deadpool kind of pretended to do with the Helicarrier and everything. So… all right. Good luck with that, Sony. I mean it.
But then there’s this, from NerdBastards (link above):
There is also a working fan theory that the events of the upcoming movie Life might be somewhat connected to Venom. Thanks to the folks over at Reddit, many believe the upcoming sci-fi horror film is a backdoor origin story for the Venom Symbiote. Some of the b-roll footage from Spider-Man 3 was reused for the upcoming film, so maybe, right?
It’s almost certainly not related, but honestly: is there any real reason why it shouldn’t be? This is the Age of Shared Universes, my droogies. And, honestly, if Life is a comic book movie then it’d explain some of the absurd stuff that we all saw in the trailers.