In the run-up to the release of this year's The End of Oak Street, there were rumors that the movie could be connected to the Cloverfield franchise. It was, after all, produced by J.J. Abrams. Additionally, the premise seemed primed for an installment of the anthology series, which had been dormant for several years. Eventually, it turned out that The End of Oak Street, Cloverfieldian as it may have been, was its own thing. Something similar happened around a decade ago, during the heyday of the superhero genre, when a mysterious sci-fi movie distributed by Sony was believed to be a secret Spider-Man spin-off centered on the character Venom. The movie in question is now headed to free streaming, where audiences can appreciate it for what it really is — an underrated thrill-ride in the vein of Ridley Scott's Alien.
The movie in question was released in 2017, the same year as Scott's Alien: Covenant. However, it was rumored to be a lead-in for Sony's upcoming Venom film starring Tom Hardy, which was slated for release in 2018. The movie starred a stellar ensemble featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, and others. It was directed by Daniel Espinosa, who had previously worked with Reynolds on the action thriller Safe House, and would go on to make the ill-fated superhero film Morbius, starring Jared Leto. Part of the reason it was mistaken for a Venom movie was because Espinosa had directed Hardy previously, in a movie titled Child 44.
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