Nadji Jeter, the voice of Miles Morales in Insomniac’s Spider-Man games, has set off a fresh round of speculation after appearing to suggest in a recent interview that the studio had been working on a standalone Venom game before plans changed.
In his comments, Jeter linked the situation to the death of Tony Todd, who voiced Venom in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Jeter reportedly said the team had been developing a Venom project and then lost Todd, which isn’t quite the same as confirming a formal cancellation.
Still, the takeaway online was immediate: Insomniac’s rumored Venom spin-off is dead.
Not so fast. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, one of the most reliable voices on this kind of internal studio reporting, pushed back on the claim, saying it isn’t true. Neither Insomniac nor Sony has issued any statement, and there was never an official Venom game announcement to begin with.
The idea of a Venom title isn’t out of nowhere. It surfaced in the massive 2023 Insomniac ransomware leak, where internal roadmap documents appeared to reference a “Marvel’s Venom” project. Combined with the playable Venom sequence in Spider-Man 2 and the studio’s track record with the smaller-scope Miles Morales, fans had every reason to expect a spin-off built around the symbiote.
Tony Todd’s performance was a major selling point for Spider-Man 2, and the actor himself had previously hinted that he recorded far more dialogue than ended up in the final game. That fueled long-running theories that Venom content was once planned to be much bigger.
If a Venom game really has been shelved, Marvel’s Spider-Man 3 now has a lot more to handle. The previous game set up Carnage through its side missions, left the Wraith arc unresolved, and pointed toward more symbiote chaos. Folding all of that into one sequel is a tall order.
