If they focus the movie on Sandman as the main villain, and then just go "Here's Venom. Now he's dead." So many people, including myself, will be pissed off. Even if you don't like a character, you should show it respect if its one of the most popular ones. I for one don't really like The Leader from Hulk, but if I was making a Hulk trilogy, I would definitely put him in there as a main villain. I think its disrespectful and childish if you do something like that in a movie that is supposed to be sort of honoring the comic series. That's like making a Superman film with Doomsday in it and making him no threat whatsoever, or making a Batman film where he has one fight with Catwoman and accidentally kills her, then that's it lol.