Venom is getting an animated film! Sony’s Venom franchise is headed in a new direction, with the studio tapping Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the duo behind last year’s Final Destination: Bloodlines, to direct the project.

Amy Pascal, Avi Arad, and Matt Tolmach, who worked on the previous Venom films, will produce. Tom Hardy, who starred in the trio of live-action movies as Eddie Brock and voiced the alien symbiote, is also involved in the animated project as a producer alongside Kelly Marcel.

No writer is yet attached to the film, though The Hollywood Reporter states that Sony Pictures Animation is opening a writers’ room to develop a script. Though there’s no release window yet, with no script and a slow animation process ahead (just look at the endless delays to Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, now scheduled for 2027), a Venom animated film is still years away.

Since Bloodlines became the highest-grossing and best-reviewed entry in the longstanding horror franchise, Lipovsky and Stein have been in high demand. Their next project will be working with Chris Columbus on Gremlins, and they are also developing an original thriller Long Lost (described as What Lies Beneath meets Rosemary’s Baby), which they intend to direct.