Knull's creators didn't know the infamous supervillain would feature in Venom: The Last Dance until everybody else did
Sep. 13, 2024Knull is revealed in the latest trailer
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Shortly after the trailer went live, artistRyan Stegman tweeted: “Yes, I did co-create knull. No, I didn’t know until today that he was gonna be in Venom: The Last Dance. Yes, I do expect to finally be able to afford that lazy river moat around my house”
The character’s other co-creator, Donny Cates, meanwhile,shared an image, also on Twitter, that simply read “MONEY” in a familar, Venom-style font.
Those posts could be read in a number of ways. Certainly, there’s a long and unfortunate history of comics creators being poorly recompensed for their work when characters make it to the big screen, with both Ed Brubaker and Jim Starlin having previously spoken out about how little they were paid whenMarvel Studiosmade use of the Winter Soldier and Thanos, to pick a couple of high profile examples.
With all that said, we don’t know the financial details here and Stegman, for his part, seems excited by the news. Helater posted to Instagram: “My co-creation KNULL is coming to the big screen in VENOM: THE LAST DANCE! When @dcates and I created this guy we knew WE loved him but had no idea how much the world would love him! Very excited!” Let’s hope he can finally get that moat.
Want to know more about Knull and how he could appear in Avengers: Secret Wars? Here’sour handy explainer.
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Will Salmon is the Comics Editor for GamesRadar/Newsarama. He has been writing about comics, film, TV, and music for more than 15 years, which is quite a long time if you stop and think about it. At Future he has previously launched scary movie magazine Horrorville, relaunched Comic Heroes, and has written for every issue of SFX magazine for over a decade. He sometimes feels very old, like Guy Pearce in Prometheus. His music writing has appeared in The Quietus, MOJO, Electronic Sound, Clash, and loads of other places and he runs the micro-label Modern Aviation, which puts out experimental music on cassette tape.
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