The voice actor for Miles Morales in Insomniac’s Spider-Man video games has provided insight into why the rumored Venom title will not be released.
Following Venom’s appearance in Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation 5, speculation arose about a Venom-focused project. However, according to Nadji Jeter, the voice actor for Miles Morales, on the Love It Film podcast, the game was canceled after Tony Todd, the voice actor for Venom, passed away in 2024.
“Let me give y’all an exclusive. We were going to have a Venom game. We were going to drop a Venom game and a Venom DLC, but we lost Tony Todd,” he said. “They showed me how everything was going to be. It was gonna be a Venom video game. Y’all played the Venom playthrough? It was just gonna be a Venom video game.”
Conflicting Reports Regarding Marvel’s Venom Title
In response to Jeter’s claims, Jason Schreier of Bloomberg commented on the Reset Era forums that this wasn’t true. In the same form discussion, a verified developer claimed the game was still being discussed at this year’s GDC.
The plans for the game would have made it a half-sequel, in the same way that Spider-Man: Miles Morales bridges the gap between the first Insomniac Spider-Man game and the sequel. While the Venom project appears to have been canceled, Insomniac is full steam ahead with the upcoming Wolverine game.
The upcoming title is slated for release in September and will carry an M rating, allowing for all the violent Logan action. Learn more about the game here.
In September of last year, it was reported that the Venom project would center on Eddie Brock. It was also reported that anti-Venom would be a part of the game, and it would have nothing to do with the Venom revealed in the second Spider-Man title. It was also reportedly slated to come after the Wolverine game.
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I mean the plot was trash and made no sense Eddie randomly joins with no connection as Anti-Venom. The plot gets messed though. The insomniac games make no sense and worse they teased Gwen despite implying she died during side missions in the first game.
It made no sense randomly bringing in Eddie as Anti Venom and Carnage as the villain. The symbiotes all get destroyed at the end of 2 when the meteroite is destroyed so it made no sense also how would Eddie be Anti-Venom? Insomniac and modern Marvel just suck horrible writing no respect for source material. Also makes sense Venom was supposed to come out first before Wolverine makes sense.
Spiderman 2 sucked, they put to much bs in that didnt have a solid plot, it was pretty woke throught out and like the Marvel movies that do the same movie over and over without telling an actual story or a lick of acting folks are getting burnt out. If they wouldve made some effort to tie it all together, maybe. But without Stan Lee, it seems none of these people can do what he could do with characters and tell an engaging story with action built in. A true fan thats read the material could do better than all the writers they put on these projects and try to piece meal together what they research and then turn a 60 to 80 yr old character into theirs some way, and that doesnt sit right with fans. So, I would say its for the best bc they are messing with generations of fan expectations here to bomb it out.
To be fair there was ment to be a couple of dlc’s that did just that tie it all together including a carnage dlc and one to do with the multiverse the tied up the spiderbots but thanks to a bunch of hackers trying to blackmail them over the content they had stolen insomniac said get f’ed we ain’t paying and ghess what because of you lot now we ain’t releasing any of it at all we’r just kill it all wer not even going to rework it in to something new you just getting nothing and sorry fans blame the hackers we warned them this would happen if they carried on with the blackmail bs
First off, I will agree that Spider-Man 2 was not good. Especially compared to the first one in 20189 or Miles Morales.
I just looked it up and Tony Todd died a full year aster the release of SM2… And I remember Tony Todd saying in an interview that they used less than half of the lines he recorded in SM2. Which always made sense to me because Venom had such a small part as far as his speaking lines.
I have never forgotten the info we got from that Insomniac hack either… and have been wondering when the Hell the Venom game was going to come out. It feels like it wouldn’t take as long to make seeing as they al;ready have a tested and working character model and animations for him from the playable section in SM2. But I say that, then we saw the absolutely insane budget of SM2 and that was the same thing…. I figured the budget would have been way less than $300 million seeing as they reused the same level (I know they added one neighborhood but still) and they already developed the Spider-Man character in SM1 and Miles Morales… But some how SM2 cost Insomniac a hundred million more than SM1 cost to make.
I think Wolverine took them a hell of a lot longer to make than they expected… I mean they showed us the first trailer 5 or 6 years ago. I think they ran into some development trouble, most likely in correlation with the hack and all of their work being spread online.
We got the whole timeline of what Insomniac is planning to work on from that leak and they are turning into pretty much the Marvel studio for Sony (sadly, but they actually lost money making Rachet n Clank so you cant blame them) And it had the Venom game coming out before Wolverine I believe, then they are going to be making full on X-Men games (which it looks more and more like this Wolverine game is going to include a lot more X-Men characters and not revolve around Wolverine completely)
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I don’t believe it. Sony wouldn’t scrap a game all over a voice actor when AI exists.
LoL Damn! This comment was brute! Haha
At the rate that Sony has been going canceling games, It is hard to not think that Tony Todds death is just being used as a scape goat.