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Venom Movie Trailer: Who Is Riot?
With Sony releasing the new Venom trailer, we got to see that this upcoming movie contains a lot more symbiotes than we originally expected. Venom aside, Scream, Riot, and possibly Phage appear in the trailer. However, it was mentioned at Comic-Con that Riot will be a bigger part of this movie. Who is this character, and where does he come from?
The symbiote that would eventually be known as Riot made his first appearance in Venom: Lethal Protector #4 back in 1993. Using Venom, Dr. Carlton Drake created five symbiotes, one of which was Riot. He looked like a slightly larger version of Venom but colored grey. Strangely enough, Riot only appears in eight total panels in the entirety of the Lethal Protector miniseries, and readers knew nothing about the character or his backstory.
The following year, the five symbiotes were back in the four-issue miniseries Venom: Separation Anxiety. We learn the person inside the Riot symbiote is named Trevor, and that he was a volunteer at the Life Foundation. Drake made Trevor and the other symbiote volunteers believe Venom was a villain who needed to be stopped. However, at the tail end of Separation Anxiety, Riot and Trevor are killed by Donna (Scream) as she believes the symbiotes all need to die. This would be the last time we ever see Trevor. Goodbye, we hardly knew thee.
In Venom: Along Came A Spider #1, the Riot symbiote popped back up, along with the four other symbiotes from the previous miniseries. A testing facility merges all the symbiotes into one called Hybrid. After a few years, the Hybrid was split back into its five separate symbiotes.
While we all call the symbiote Riot, it wasn’t until 2012’s Carnage, USA #2 when Trevor’s symbiote was officially named Riot. The name originally comes from the 1996 Toy Biz line “Venom: Planet of the Symbiotes.” The figure didn’t look much like the character though. In Carnage, USA, the Riot symbiote is given to Howard Ogden, with the hopes of taking down Carnage, who made his symbiote possess the Avengers.
Riot popped up one more time in 2014’s Deadpool vs. Carnage miniseries. All five of the Lethal Protector symbiotes bonded with Deadpool, so he could take down Carnage. That’s the last we’ve seen of the Riot symbiote.
Because Riot is the “child” of Venom, he has pretty much the same powers. In Deadpool vs. Carnage, Wade Wilson mentioned that the Riot symbiote gave him increased speeds. However, that’s all we really know about the character. While Riot has existed for 25 years, he is not a well-defined character by any means.
While the trailers don’t give too much away about the character, we do know that Dr. Carlton Drake is the person inside the Riot symbiote. That’s a bit of a departure from the source material, but it makes sense for the story. We can assume Drake is of the mindset of “if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.”
Find out more about Riot when Venom comes to theaters on October 5.
Marvel’s Infinity Wars Is Heating Up
It’s easy to feel a sense of apathy towards Marvel’s cosmic franchises of late. The Inhumans line has contracted and may well be gone in a few more months. Silver Surfer and various other key characters are basically MIA. And while Gerry Duggan’s cosmic saga has continued in the transition from Guardians of the Galaxy to Infinity Countdown, lately it’s felt like Marvel has been publishing a never-ending cosmic crossover with no real selling point to speak of. That’s finally started to change with the advent of Infinity Wars, however. Between last week’s Infinity Wars Prime prelude and the start of the core series, the latest Infinity crossover is making a strong case for itself.
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Tom Cruise Movie Success Linked To Tom Cruise Running, According To Science
Tom Cruise pulls off some wild stunts in Mission Impossible films, including the recent Mission Impossible Fallout. But it’s another kind of physical feat that may be the strongest indicator of success. A very serious study from Rotten Tomatoes concludes that box office success correlates directly with how much Tom Cruise runs.
The study tabulated all of Tom Cruise’s on-screen sprints, then calculated them into distances as measured against a six-minute mile. Then the films were split into four categories, based on how much distance he covered per film: zero feet, 1-500 feet, 501-1,000 feet, and 1,000+ feet. Once all the numbers were crunched and the steps counted, a pattern emerged: movies where Cruise spent more time cruising made more money at the box office and scored a higher critical review average to boot.
The zero feet category is populated by dramas like Magnolia and Valkyrie, whereas short-distance running is largely made up of older movies like Risky Business, Days of Thunder, and Rain Man. The longer-distance running category has some of the older Mission Impossible movies mixed with recent action films, and the longest-distance is composed almost entirely of recent action movies. It turns out Cruise is running a lot more on film as he gets older.
The top ten for distance traveled has three Mission Impossible films on it–Mission Impossible 3, Ghost Protocol, and Rogue Nation–along with recent action movies like Edge of Tomorrow and The Mummy. So chalk it up to his star power increasing with age or big-budget action movies having more reason to spur on an exciting on-foot chase sequence. Whatever the cause, the data is clear. Tom Cruise running makes bank. It’s science.
Check out GameSpot’s own Mission Impossible Fallout review for more on his latest daring-do.
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Best And Worst Games Based On Films | Versus
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The American classic The Sandlot is reportedly getting a prequel film, and it’s deep in development.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, it looks like fans of The Sandlot, which turns 25 this year, have something big coming their way. The film is reportedly in advanced development at 20th Century Fox, and will be written by original director and writer David Mickey Evans alongside new writer Austin Reynolds.
There is no word on the plot for the potential prequel, so it’s unclear if this will feature famous characters from the original like Smalls, Yeah-Yeah and Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez, or if it will be an entirely new group of kids. Considering Smalls had just moved to the San Fernando Valley at the beginning of the original, it’s possible he won’t be involved in this prequel.
Dead or Alive 6: ‘Diego’ Revealed, ‘Rig’ Returns
IGN can exclusively reveal two new fighters for DEAD OR ALIVE 6, the forthcoming fighting game from Koei Tecmo’s Team Ninja. Brand-new fighter Diego and returning DOA5 antagonist Rig can be seen in a new announcement trailer.
A street-fighting brawler who grew up in the back alleys of New York, newcomer Diego brings a range of hard-hitting moves including headbutts and tackles when he makes his DOA debut. Diego started entering street matches to win money to support his ailing mother, and quickly became known as New York’s “uncrowned street hero.” With a talent for fighting in confined quarters, his anything-goes full-body-contact move-set is visceral and raw. See his reveal trailer above.