Scott Rosenberg (born April 24, 1963) is an American screenwriter, film producer, and actor.
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After Spider-Man tore the symbiote off it was taken to a lab. Eddie Brock has been fired from the Bugle after Peter revealed he sent out a fake story and got contacted by a scientist which asks him to investigate the Life Foundation and finds the symbiote which calls itself Venom. It attaches to Eddie and grants him great powers. Now Venom is wanted by the Life Foundation and Carlton Drake, who created a synthetic symbiote known as Riot which he merged with and fights Venom.