Having experienced his own fair share of split personality action with his time as Smeagol and Gollum, Andy Serkis could be about to step behind the camera to tackle another character with his own personal personality issues.

Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, Serkis is believed to be in talks with Sony Pictures over directing Venom 2. Since trying his hand at directing, Serkis is notable for helming Mowgli: Legend of The Jungle Book, Breathe and as a second unit director on Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy.

The outlet reports that Serkis was in Los Angeles this past week for face-to-face talks about tackling the Venom sequel. Despite this, there are other directors in the conversation with it comes to who will be in the director’s chair for the second outing for Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock. Venom director Ruben Fleischer will not be returning, hence why other names are now being looked at.

Currently, Sony has tentative plans to start filming Venom 2 this November ahead of an October 2020 release.