Venom was one of 2018’s most surprising success stories.

It took the title of the October opening weekend hit record by doing $80 million and went on to earn $855 million worldwide. This bizarre comicbook movie of Tom Hardy is based on Spider-Man‘s most popular enemies. So its no surprise that a follow up is on the way.

Sony is developing the sequel of Venom with Kelly Marcel, one of the writer on the first movie, set to write the script. Variety first reported the news on Monday, citing anonymous sources, and was followed by multiple outlets, including Entertainment Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter.

Last November, Sony cited two Marvel releases for 2020 on July and October 2. The latter was described as an “untitled Sony/Marvel sequel,” which is most likely “Venom 2.”

Sony did not immediately return a request for comment.

Sony’s Spider-Man plans appeared to be dead after “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” failed to excite audiences in 2014. Sony struck a deal with Marvel in which the latter could use Spider-Man in the MCU, while Sony retained distribution rights.

However, a “Venom 2” sequel is being fast tracked and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” has already won the Golden Globe for best animated feature. With 900 Marvel characters that Sony owns the right to, the Spider-Man universe now shows no signs of taking it slow. According to Vanity Fair, its internally referred to as “Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters” or SUMC.

“If they consistently make films audiences want to see, Disney [which owns Marvel] will have to buy Sony to get ‘Spider-Man’ back,” Jeff Bock, a senior box-office analyst for Exhibitor Relations, told Business Insider in November.

Besides a “Venom” sequel, Sony is also developing a Morbius movie, with Jared Leto playing Spider-Man’s vampire villain; a movie about Black Cat, who is a regular love interest of Spider-Man in the comics; and a Kraven the Hunter movie, starring another of Spider-Man’s biggest enemies. An all-female spin-off of “Into the Spider-Verse” is also in the works, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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