With the news that Alex Kurtzman would be taking over not only the reboot of The Mummy, but also would run the monster universe that Universal is cooking up, it comes into question where that leaves the Spider-Man universe, and namely Venom on his priority list.

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Kurtzman is slated to direct The Mummy, which hits theaters on April 22, 2016, so he could still be in play for the Venom movie that has no release date yet. As of now, Sony has just set the dates for The Sinister Six (November 11, 2016) and The Amazing Spider-Man 3 (sometime in 2018).

With a disappointing run by The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the third installment was pushed and Sony is hoping to see a more productive outing with The Sinister Six, directed by Drew Goddard. But is this eliminating Kurtzman from the franchise?

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The director will be working on The Mummy for the next few years and with the schedule right now, it seems like Venom won't be in a movie until past 2018. But the villain could pop up in The Sinister Six and depending on the reception, could warrant a movie quicker.

But where Kurtzman's schedule problems lie now is in his world-building he is doing at Universal. It isn't clarified how involved he is in the monster universe process, but it has him labeled with Chris Morgan as the head of the whole operation.

Much like Joss Whedon with Marvel, running a universe for a studio seems to take up a lot of time and Whedon hasn't found much time to work on other movies outside of Marvel, besides his own small indie film.

This may be a problem for Sony if they lose Kurtzman because it adds even more uncertainty to this entire universe.

Who knows if Kurtzman would be unable to work on Venom, but with how the universe process has been up to this point, it seems like Sony may need to look elsewhere for a director.

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