The latest Insomniac rumor spiral began when Nadji Jeter, the actor behind Miles Morales in the Spider-Man games, claimed that the long-rumored Venom project had been canceled after Tony Todd’s death. The comment spread fast, but it ran straight into a wall almost immediately, because Jason Schreier flatly pushed back on it. So right now, the clearest takeaway is not that the game is dead, but that the information around it is a mess.

The idea that Insomniac had a Venom spin-off in the works was never exactly hidden. After the studio’s massive 2023 leak, internal documents pointed to a symbiote-focused side project, and since then fans have been waiting for some sort of official acknowledgment from Sony or Insomniac. That never arrived, largely because the studio’s attention appears to be locked on Marvel’s Wolverine, which remains the next major release on its slate.

The current wave of confusion started when Jeter appeared on the Love It Film podcast and said he had seen the Venom project from the inside. According to him, Insomniac was planning not only a full Venom game but also Venom DLC, before everything supposedly fell apart after the loss of Tony Todd. Todd, who voiced Venom in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, died in November 2024, and Jeter’s wording made it sound as if that tragedy directly killed the project.

Then Two Different Sources Pushed Back, and the Story Immediately Got Much Murkier

That version did not survive unchallenged for long. Jason Schreier, one of the most reliable reporters in the business, responded on ResetEra with a blunt answer: that’s not true. Just as importantly, a verified anonymous developer on the same forum added that, based on what had still been discussed around GDC, the Venom game should have remained in development. They also pointed out the obvious timeline problem: Tony Todd died well before GDC 2026, which makes Jeter’s explanation harder to square with what others say they were hearing more recently.

What that suggests is not necessarily that Jeter invented the whole thing. It suggests he may have been speaking from incomplete, outdated, or partially understood information. It is entirely possible that what he saw was real, and that Insomniac did at some point have a much clearer Venom plan in motion, only for the project to change shape, slow down, or move further out. Without a direct statement from Sony or Insomniac, though, everything remains foggy. And because the game was never officially announced, there is no real reason to expect either company to rush in and clean up the rumor storm now.

So at the moment, the strongest conclusion is not that the Venom game has been canceled. It is that the public still has no solid picture of what state it is actually in. Jeter lit the fuse, Schreier stomped on it, a second source backed Schreier, and the official side stayed silent. That leaves fans in the familiar position of trying to build certainty out of fragments, while the one thing they actually want – a clear answer from the people making the game – still has not arrived.

Source: 3DJuegos