IGN Premiere is rolling out an exclusive week of Venom content, starting today with an inside look at how Venom is reinventing the lethal protector for the big screen. Tune in all week at 8 a.m. PT for more first-look content at the making of Venom.

Venom is one of the most iconic characters in the Marvel comics roster, but the upcoming adaptation directed by Ruben Fleisher is looking to offer a new take on the lethal protector that fans haven't seen before.

The new film serves as a Venom origin movie, but it breaks Venom's origin away from the Spider-Man story it's directly tied to in almost every iteration of the character that's come before . This time around, Venom comes to Eddie first, and it's their struggle to develop a symbiotic relationship that is at the center of the film.

Watch director Ruben Fleischer explain why Venom ditched Spider-Man:

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"We show how the Venom symbiote came to Earth, how Eddie Brock got to meet the symbiote, how it bonded with him, and then ultimately became the Venom character that we all know from the comics," explained VFX supervisor Paul Franklin to IGN during an exclusive visit to the film's set. Watch our full set visit video interview above, complete with new behind-the-scenes looks at Venom.Considering that Sony currently has a successful and well-received Spider-Man on the big screen, it might seem a curious choice to break Venom away from its traditional comic book roots and give the character a different origin story. But production designer Oliver Scholl explained, "Inherently, Venom is a darker character, so the high school element of Spider-Man doesn’t really apply here."Because this film is not based on the Spider-Man Venom, it gives director Ruben Fleischer the freedom to go darker than the John Hughes-inspired Spider-Man: Homecoming or the lighter tone of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films that Tom Holland's Spider-Man appears in. Though both Venom and Homecoming are rated PG-13 , Sony is pushing Venom to be a much harder PG-13 than its take on Spider-Man -- reportedly trying to push the content in the film up to the edge of an R-rating -- as can be seen in the darker aesthetic of the Venom trailers and the unique dynamic between Eddie and the alien symbiote that lives within him.

Watch the latest trailer for Venom:

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"The real big difference between Venom and other superhero characters is Venom is a multiple personality. There’s a Jekyll and Hyde thing going on. You know, he’s mild-mannered Eddie Brock, and then this extraordinary thing comes out of him. There is a continual dialogue going on between the two," said Franklin. "Of course, Tom is voicing both parts of this. This gives the character an interesting twist, this idea that there’s this constant sense of argument, exchange, of conflict going on between them. And then eventually, of course, they build to a point where they are working together, they’re interacting together, and they’re becoming something stronger than they were before."Because Venom traditionally begins his origins by bonding to Spider-Man before finding Eddie Brock as a host, this new take on the character means reconceiving how the symbiote will bond with Eddie -- plus rethinking how it will act once they do bond."Venom is obviously a character that has been established already in the comic books. So we have a lot of visual reference to go on. But what’s really interesting about Venom compared to other superhero characters is that every artist interprets him differently. Venom is constantly changing, because he’s this amorphous, shape-changing symbiote," said Franklin. "The Venom creature is this alien, slug-like creature which gets inside somebody’s body, and then takes them over and transforms them into this very large, muscular, black-skinned creature. But Venom can send out tentacles and create shields and webs, and all sorts of interesting shapes it can build off his skin, all the time. So he’s never the same thing twice. Trying to figure out that and put that into reality, that’s a really interesting challenge.""When you look at the comic drawings, you see how styles have changed over the years, but there is the constant thread of dynamism that runs right through them, and that is what we’re looking to capture," he added.

IGN Premiere is rolling out an exclusive week of Venom content. Tune in tomorrow for new information on Tom Hardy is bringing Venom to life through a dual performance and plenty of special and practical effects. Venom hits theaters in the UK on October 3rd, Australia on October 4th and US on October 5th.

Terri Schwartz is Editorial Manager of Entertainment at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz