Venom: The Last Dance trailer wants you to believe Eddie’s gonna die
Venom: The Last Dance, starring Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Juno Temple, premieres in theaters October 25
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Superhero movies inherently have life-or-death stakes—the villain must be defeated or else the world will end!—but Venom: The Last Dance really wants you to believe that Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and his symbiote are gonna kick the bucket by the end of this movie. It’s pretty rare for one of these films to actually kill off its protagonist, but the Venom series has always been a twisted outlier from the typical superhero fare, and this is being billed as the conclusion of the trilogy. So maybe Hardy, who has a story credit on the film, really will commit to the trailer’s promise that “til death do they part” when the movie premieres on October 25.
The logline for Venom: The Last Dance (via Variety) reads: “Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie’s last dance.” The stakes are certainly high. Eddie is being tracked by the government (led by Chiwetel Ejiofor as a military man and Juno Temple as a scientist) because of an extraterrestrial threat from Venom’s homeworld. Venom fans will remember that in the first film, the symbiotes were looking for planets with hosts they could possess and consume, but Venom abandoned that mission in favor of helping Eddie become a criminal-killing anti-hero. Perhaps that betrayal is what brought those big, freaky looking aliens to Earth: a menacing voiceover promises that “As long as Venom lives, everyone, everything will end.”
When we last saw Eddie and Venom, they’d been transported into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (a.k.a. Earth-616, for all you nerds out there) as a result of Doctor Strange’s multiverse-breaking spellwork. In a post-credits scene for Spider-Man: No Way Home, a bartender played by Ted Lasso’s Cristo Fernández had explained the ins and outs of the Avengers and their universe before Eddie and Venom were sent back to their own universe. A small piece of symbiote was left behind at Fernández’s bar. In the trailer, Ejiofor can be seen capturing that bit of symbiote in front of a disheveled Fernández. That presumably means that military personnel from Eddie’s universe have the ability to travel the multiverse—which is made all the more confusing because Ejiofor plays another character in the MCU, Karl Mordo, an ally and antagonist of Doctor Strange.
It’s a complicated web being weaved here, but all will (probably? hopefully?) be explained when the film premieres in October. Maybe it’s something to do with the symbiotes that allows people to traverse universes. Or maybe it’s just a big, dumb, fun superhero movie and we shouldn’t get too hung up on the weight of all that post-credits lore. Whichever road you choose to take, may you enjoy all the violence and chaos that Venom: The Last Dance has to offer.
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funniest possible outcome is this outgrossing deadpool & wolverine.
Doubt it’ll happen, but it will probably be one of the few movies to cross $500 million this year.
They should have just called the character Mordo and in this universe he’s not a wizard. Anyway I think we all assumed that bit of venom was set up for Tom Holland to find it, so this is a weird turn. Maybe Marvel had other ideas and Sony felt like they had to tie up that loose thread.
Based on the film’s subtitle, The Last Dance, Ejiofor is clearly playing a multiverse Michael Jordan and the venom symbiote is how he becomes the greatest basketball player ever. Except this universe, he plays his entire career for…The Washington Wizards.
I’ve seen people saying “They did the end-credits thing to introduce the symbiote in the MCU”… but why couldn’t they just have written it into the MCU…. why was this required…? I think it was just to beef up the box office for Venom 2 threw word of mouth. Cheap.
Ejiofor is most likely playing someone entirely different.Don’t overthink it. This will happen later when Russell Crowe plays someone new in the Kraven movie. It’s not Zeus.
Sorta like how they’ve referenced Star Wars and don’t comment on how Fury looks like the guy who played Mace Windu. Also your example is mildly amusing to me because Kraven himself was Quicksilver in the MCU.
Right. I mean, best not to get too worked up about this kind of thing. And certainly not worth limiting casting choices.
Matt Smith, Adam Scott, Michelle Williams, Woody Harrelson, Jenny Slate and Sydney Sweeney have all been in Sony movies. Any of them would be great in the MCU
I always assumed they don’t mention Mace Windu because the MCU takes place in a different, better universe where Star Wars never progressed past Return of the Jedi.
I don’t know why people think this film is an MCU film. It doesn’t matter that he’s not playing Mordo…
Based on the lack of musical numbers in this trailer I can only assume this is a musical.
I haven’t seen the other two Venom movies but if this is a musical I will be there on day one.
Same!
In the trailer, Ejiofor can be seen capturing that bit of symbiote in
front of a disheveled Fernández. That presumably means that military
personnel from Eddie’s universe have the ability to travel the
multiverse—which is made all the more confusing because Ejiofor plays
another character in the MCU, Karl Mordo, an ally and antagonist of
Doctor Strange.
I mean, maybe. IMDB lists him as someone else but that could end up being an alias.
Venom is not a superhero.
Go look at Venom modern Venom comics. Dude lives in an alley and they tries to be a good Dad and stuff. Venom is definitely a superhero. And it’s not a stretch the way they write it either. You should really check it out.
It has zero resemblance to these films
This movie needs to end with Venom, Kraven, Madame Web, Vulture and Morbius all standing together with dramatic music like they are the Superfriends! What! One can only hope for something that stupid!Fine fine, they are all the new Defenders! 😉
“…all standing together with dramatic music…”And then they’re crushed by a giant boulder.
Now that is a movie we all need to see! 🙂
recycle Terrry Gilliam’s old 16 tons animation from MPFC
Better yet, the giant foot.
I’m intrigued by Horse Venom.
Venomous horses?!
Fuck off, those things have tried to kill me enough already.
You live in Australia! You should be used to that by now!
Snakes and spiders and box jellyfish and blue-ringed occies are cool; horses are just outright cunts.
Horse Venom threatens people by leaving his own head in their bed. (It neighs menacingly from under the covers…)
Now that is pure neigh-tmare fuel!
Well i skipped Venom 2 so obviously i’d have no chance of understanding what’s happening in Venom 3
It… Yeah – it probably won’t hurt – and might actually help honestly. Still gonna watch it though – but only because Tom Hardy. I would watch that dude in a movie just about a guy who is on the phone while driving and talking on the phone (and not doing anything else – just all him driving and talking on the phone).BTW – in case you think I am kidding – I am not… That movie is Locke – and it was great – and it is literally just him – in a car – making phone calls. Nothing else happens – it is tense and drawn out and he makes it great.If he can make THAT interesting – he can make anything interesting. I have not seen a single thing he was in which wasn’t better because of him.
Yes but where is Dan?!?!
I refuse to see this. Sony baited me into seeing the last one by having an MCU post-credits that amounted to nothing. Nope. No. Also it’s as if they don’t know Venom has his own comics and somewhat rich lore. Why on earth aren’t they doing Knull God of Symbiotes for a final film…. why on earth is this named after a Magic Mike movie.
No. I say no to this film. Release Tom Hardy to Hollywoood already.
Dear GOD, can we PLEASE be done with the “dramatic trailer version of an iconic song” trend already? It actively sucks any enthusiasm I might potentially feel toward a movie the second I hear that exact same slowed-down, ponderous intonation of iconic lyrics, all set to the exact same drum progression as every other trailer that does this.Which is all them. They all do it.I seriously hope whomever decided to use “Space Oddity” for this, David Bowie is haunting them, constantly playing that very first album he made which he disowned later. You know, the one where he had that Beatles bowl cut.
Did they drop the bomb that 10-year old Peter Parker is in this because reddit is pissssssssed lol between this and the Giancarlo thing reddits bros are losing their minds LOL
Never mind Venom, I want to see Denim: a down-on-his-luck fashion designer finds a battered selvedge Type 3 jacket in a dumpster somewhere and the moment he puts it on, he becomes an indigo-powered menace. It nearly overcomes him and turns him evil, but through sheer force of twill, he reverses its weave and brings it over to the side of justice. (He does permanently grow one of those mustaches though.)
I can hear the trailer narrator now.“This summer, you will believe there is beer on the sun!”
Could I interest you in Deerskin instead?
It’s a shame that Bruce J. Mitchell, the Zappiest of all the Rowsdowers, is no longer with us. I would absolutely see that film.
Now that part of the symbiote was left behind in the MCU, we need an R-rated Agent Venom movie starring Tony Revolori!