 In 2009, Gary Ross, who was then rewriting the latest draft of the unproduced "Spider-Man 4", was assigned to rewrite the "Venom" script and direct the film, in which Venom would be an antihero rather than a supervillain.In March 2012, "Chronicle" director Josh Trank negotiated his interest in directing the film with Sony, after Ross left development to direct "The Hunger Games".In June 2012, "The Amazing Spider-Man" producer Matt Tolmach, speaking of his and fellow producer Avi Arad's next project, a "Venom" film, suggested it could follow the shared-universe model of the film "The Avengers"