Who Can Replace Topher As The Gooey Spawn Of Evil?

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:30:00 PDT

A Venom spin off is in the works, because clearly everyone liked him more than Peter Parker in Spider-Man 3. This may be partly due to the fact that Topher Grace's acting completely eclipsed all three standard recurring characters thus far. Alas, the rumor is there will be no Topher in this Venom (not a big enough star). Although we still think Topher could carry a tentpole production (he was a lovely foil to Spidey), click through to see our suggestions for back-up Venoms.

Leonardo DiCaprio:

Why He's Destined To Don The Skin Tight Unitard: DiCaprio is a much better fit as Venom than as Captain America. Even though you may think he'd never do a movie like this, you could argue that Christian Bale opened the door for more A-listers to take super-roles.
Why He'll Fall Flat On His Big Venom Grin It's still DiCaprio and my money is if he gets this role, he'll phone it in big time cause it's beneath him or something arty like that.

Casey Affleck

Why He's Destined To Don The Skin Tight Unitard: Showed us all he could play crazy in that ridiculous cowboy flick, so now it's his time to shine.
Why He'll Fall Flat On His Big Venom Grin: Does anyone want to see another Affleck movie, even if it is the younger brother?

Sam Witwer:

Why He's Destined To Don The Skin Tight Unitard: He's going to be huge after The Force Unleashed as the secret apprentice. Huge I tell ya, huge. He's already proven that he can play the bad guy, what more do you need? Plus I'd pay to watch this guy read his mail for two hours, he's that good looking.
Why He'll Fall Flat On His Big Venom Grin:Banking pretty hard on the fact that he will become able to carry a film based on a video game is a big risk.

James McAvoy:

Why He's Destined To Don The Skin Tight Unitard: Proved he could do action in Wanted, looks good in action, and is pretty decent actor. So he could pull off the crazy villain thing.
Why He'll Fall Flat On His Big Venom Grin:McAvoy would need to go seriously dark for anyone to take him seriously in this role. I'm still used to seeing him in as the romantic lead, in spite of Wanted.

[Hollywood Reporter]

Must See: Torchwood

charliejane — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:59:04 PDT

Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.

Title: Torchwood
Date: 2006-present

Vitals: A secret organization in the Doctor Who universe hoards alien artifacts and uses them to "arm the human race against the future." Mostly, though, they shag each other and then argue about it.

Famous names: John Barrowman, Russell T. Davies, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman

Crunchy goodness: 2

Sights you'll never unsee: Carolyn Chikezie as the "cyberwoman," stalking around in a discofied half-naked version of a Cyberman costume from Doctor Who before getting killed. Runner-up: the scene where Ianto, the cyberwoman's bereaved boyfriend, seduces her murderer Captain Jack, using only a stopwatch and some very odd innuendo.

Life lesson: It's okay to shoot your boss and unleash a time-storm on the human race, if there's even a remote chance of bringing back your long-lost girlfriend.

Most painfully dated moment: The swooping cityscape views and hero-on-rooftop shots looked awesome... on Angel. In general, the show often seems to be straining mightily to drag British science fiction into the 1990s... only seven years too late.

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Who Can Replace Topher As The Gooey Spawn Of Evil?

Must See: Torchwood