Relax, Andy Serkis says the Venom and Spider-Man reunion will happen eventually
The director assures folks the web-slinging hero will cross paths with Venom in the future
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Apparently, the question on everyone’s mind when it comes to Venom (well, besides wondering if the release date will be moved again) is: when the hell is Spider-Man going to show up? Venom: Let There Be Carnage’s director Andy Serkis has plans to bring Spider-Man and Venom face to face once more… but not just yet. For now, Serkis thinks it’s Eddie Brock’s time to shine as the morally ambiguous Marvel character trying to cope with the alien symbiote that controls him and his life.
“That’s the question on everyone’s lips,” Serkis says in an interview with IGN. “They want to know when Venom is going to meet Spider-Man. Personally, it’s never going to happen. I’m only joking, of course it’s going to happen. I think there’s so much… it depends on when you want to get there and also what the appetite is. If people want more Venom stories, than to jump straight to Spider-Man you could be missing out on so many great supervillain characters in between now and then.”
While Spider-Man is busy opening the multiverse in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the director wants to let Venom do his own thing. In the forthcoming Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Tom Hardy’s Venom will face off against Carnage, played by Woody Harrelson.
“But yes, everyone wants to see Venom fight Spider-Man, so I think it’s appetite,” Serkis concludes.
Technically, Venom already met Spider-Man on the big screen in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. Who can forget the absolutely cursed evil Tobey Maguire with the greasy black hair? Raimi also intended on creating the Venom spin-off back then, but it fell apart when Raimi exited the film franchise due to creative differences with the writers. Nonetheless, when it comes to another Spidey/Venom showdown, patience is a virtue.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is out October 1. Spider-Man: No Way Home opens December 17.
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It really doesn’t make sense to have these versions of the characters meet or interact in any way.I enjoyed the first Venom, wasn’t great, but it was okay. I’m looking forward to the upcoming Venom movie. But in no way should the “Venom-verse” join the MCU.What would the point even be? Spider-man has absolutely no connection to Venom or the symbiote in these universes.
Maybe Tom Holland Spiderman somehow meets Topher Grace Venom in No Way Home. Or somehow Tom Hardy Venom meets Topher Grace Venom and the symbiotes mind meld or some Macguffin-y nonsense and he inherits some of the other’s distaste for Parker. Or, bizarrely, whatever spell Strange casts on Parker and the universe to make all people forget he’s Spiderman doesn’t have an effect on the symbiote, sort of the “you weren’t precise with the genie” response, and thus, the only other person in the universe that still knows he’s Spiderman after the movie is this rando homeless looking dude in San Francisco.
There’s lots of ways. They’re all rather tortured and dumb, of course, but there’s possibilities.
The symbiote has left Eddie before for other hosts, they can basically just reverse it where symbiote + Eddie, then symbiote + Parker then Venom again. and it would give Eddie + symbiote motivation to strike back at Parker. Although how you do that story without basically just remaking the Venom stuff from Spider-Man 3 would be tricky.
But what Sony doesn’t get with there “Let’s just do it like DC does it and hope it turns out as good as Marvel” is that you need groundwork. Spider-Man’s connection with Venom isn’t just “IT EXISTS”. It’s built on a foundation that it was attached to Peter, that made him go ‘dark’, that it harkened back ‘With great power comes great responsibility’. And the Eddie Brock connection matter because he was, at the time, the Anti-Peter, a rival and someone who hated him. That’s what makes Venom a great villain, it’s the personal connection to Peter, not Venom himself.
i think there are a million other ways it could work. we aren’t going to get that version of the story, but there’s definitely a version of this venom and this spider-man meeting that could be a fun romp.
Exactly. Do people really want Tom Hardy’s Venom to fight Tom Holland’s (or any) Spider-Man? Maybe it could have worked if they had waited for a team-up against Carnage, but no.
Maybe they’ll do like in the comics and Eddie Brock won’t be Venom anymore, but instead Flash will become a super-soldier Venom. Who wouldn’t want to see Tony Revolori as Venom?
Fuck no. Eddie is my Venom and the 100K fans who know Flash as Venom can fuck off. Millions know Eddie as Venom and I agree with OP this isn’t the way to do it.
Relax dude, it was a joke. I just thought it would be funny to see this guy as Venom.
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY SYMBIOTE!
Also the majority of venom’s powerset is just the symbiote using Peter’s (webs, sticking to walls, etc), and the fact that he doesn’t set off Peter’s spider sense, or tingles if you will.
Yeah I always understood the appeal of Venom to be that he’s like a General Zod or Reverse-Flash type villain, with the same basic power set as the hero, except they use those powers for evil.My objection to the Tom Hardy Venom continuity is that, by eliminating Spider-Man from the backstory, that connection is permanently severed. Venom is now just a guy who randomly swings around kind of like Spider-Man despite having no real connection to him. This version of the Venom symbiote doesn’t view Peter Parker as an ex. There’s really no reason for these two characters to meet.
Well really what makes him a great villain is he looks cool.
100% this, they are supposed to hate each other and we are supposed to understand why Eddie hates him.I didn’t care for the 1st Venom and I will see this one because of Carnage but I don’t have high hopes.
It’s not really up to Serkis whether it happens or who directs it, is it?
Of course it’s going to happen. It’s going to happen at the first opportunity. As soon as the current deal with Marvel expires, Sony will, like literally the next day, have cameras rolling on this.
Hardy Venom should never meet Spider-Man, but constantly talk about him whenever Spider-Man isn’t around.