A Spider-Man voice actor says the Venom game was abandoned because of the death of Tony Todd in 2024 but he may not be right.
Although it was never formally announced, Insomniac Games did at one point plan to make a Spider-Man spin-off centred around the villainous Venom, following his brief playable section in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
A Venom spin-off was part of Insomniac’s leaked release schedule from 2023, which was obtained following a major hack of the developer’s servers. However, the game was aiming for a 2025 launch, which obviously never happened.
Plans no doubt changed in response to the leak anyway (as they did for Marvel’s Wolverine) but the project was thrown further off course following the death of Venom’s voice actor. But there’s good reason to hope that it’s still underway, despite what one of the other actors says.
Nadji Jeter, who voices Miles Morales in all three Insomniac Spider-Man games, recently appeared on the Love It Film podcast to discuss his career. There, he shared an ‘exclusive’ about the Venom project.
‘We were going to have a Venom game… and a Venom DLC, but we lost Tony Todd,’ said Jeter, referring to Venom’s voice actor who died in late 2024; about a year after the release of Spider-Man 2.
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Jeter doesn’t go into further detail, only adding that he was shown an early glimpse of the Venom game and compared it to the aforementioned Venom section from Spider-Man 2.
While Todd’s passing was tragic and his performance as Venom was well received, it’s a bit hard to imagine that Insomniac would choose to cancel an entire project – especially one guaranteed to be very popular – rather than simply hire a new voice actor for Venom.
In fact, Jeter’s comments have already been refuted, albeit not by Insomniac but Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, perhaps the most noteworthy and reliable insider in the industry.
On the ResetEra forums, Schreier simply responded to Jeter’s claim about the Venom game’s cancellation with, ‘This isn’t true.’
Additionally, one Justin ‘LordHuffnPuff’ Bortnick, founder of indie studio Allfather Productions, claimed to have heard that the Venom spin-off was still in the works as recently as March.
‘Unless it was cancelled in the past two or so weeks… this runs contradictory to what was being discussed at GDC,’ he said on ResetEra, referring to Game Developers Conference, ‘And Todd died way before GDC 2026.’
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It was also reported last September that the Venom spin-off remained in ‘active development’ and could potentially launch in early 2027, following the release of Insomniac’s Wolverine this September.
Despite what you’d assume, voice actors are a notoriously unreliable source of info so it’s entirely possible Jeter is mistaken, and Insomniac merely changed its plans for a Venom standalone game, both in response to the leak and Todd’s passing.
The other big question about the franchise is when Spider-Man 3 will be released, since the leaked timetable is clearly no longer accurate.
The facial motion capture actor for Peter Parker in the Insomniac games did tease he’s currently working on a new Spider-Man project earlier this month.
It’s unclear, though, if it’s the Venom spin-off, Spider-Man 3, or something else entirely.
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