Sony has set a release date for its Spider-Man spin-off film, Venom

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TheWrap reports Venom will open in theaters on October 5, 2018. That release date was originally occupied by Warner Bros.' Aquaman solo film before it recently got pushed back to December This version of the Marvel villain will reportedly not exist in the shared MCU as Tom Holland's Spider-Man. Sony first revived the film project last year and according to last year's reports, the film was “being envisioned as a franchise apart from and unrelated to the upcoming Spider-Man movie in the works with actor Tom Holland.” Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, the producers of the Spider-Man movies for Sony, are also producing Venom. Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner are writing Venom.Meanwhile, the first solo film for the MCU/Sony version of Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Homecoming , hits theaters on July 7.Editor's note: An earlier version of this report claimed Alex Kurtzman was attached to direct. We have since learned that is no longer the case.

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