Interview (Written): Scott Rosenberg

Conversation with the screenwriter of ‘Venom’.

A Creative Screenwriting interview with prolific screenwriter Scott Rosenberg whose movie credits include Beautiful Girls, Con Air, High Fidelity, and the new Marvel movie Venom. Here are some excerpts of Rosenberg’s comments.

With something like Venom, who’s such a popular, dark character, it’s sort of a new story. He’s a villain, so the burden was to make him the bad guy while trying to find the humanity in him. Our biggest demand was writing two flawed main characters that were also heroic. Eddie was a flawed character and Venom came down to destroy the world. By virtue of one taking over the other and spending time together, they both end up changed for the better. Venom finds the goodness in humanity and Eddie finds the goodness in himself. That was our thesis.

The whole business is so publicized that if some 23-year-old kid just sold a script, it’s not just on Deadline, it’s on USA Today. But, anyone who gets in this business just to make money is an idiot. Statistically speaking, you have a better chance of inventing a spaceship than selling a screenplay. They don’t understand it’s a calling, not a job.

There’s no guarantee that you’re going to rise in the ranks and there’s nothing to fall back on. You might be 26 years old with no resume and no experience and fail. You do it because you love it and you feel the need to tell stories. You come here in the first place because there are stories you want to tell.

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