In the Fall of 2009, we brought you a story about Sony’s Columbia Pictures working with director Gary Ross (The Hunger Games) and Marvel Entertainment‘s Avi Arad on a big-screen adaptation of a long-gestating Spider-Man spin-off, in the form of his archenemy Venom. At the time, the project was supposed to bring back Topher Grace, who portrayed Eddie Brock as the host of the sentient alien symbiote in director Sam Raimi‘s third Spider-Man film.

That iteration of the project didn’t survive, but now the LATimes reports that the project is being resurrected by Sony. The studio is currently searching for a new writer to pen the script, and Josh Trank, who directed the Max Landis penned super-powered found footage flick Chronicle is in negotiations to direct.

No production or release dates have been announced for Venom.