Sony has released a new trailer for the… let’s say, Spider-man adjacent, ‘Venom’ movie starring Tom Hardy, and unlike the teaser released a few months back, this one actually has some Venom in it!
The official synopsis reads “One of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and badass characters comes to the big screen, starring Academy Award-nominated actor Tom Hardy as the lethal protector Venom.” I don’t mind saying, I was a little sceptical when Sony said they would be making a Venom movie outside of the MCU franchise. However, I do rather like what I’m seeing in this trailer.
Venom, for those of you not up on your Marvel history, first appeared in May 1988 during the Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars. Spider-Man is on another world when his suit gets ruined. Thor directs him to a machine which is supposed to read his thoughts and instantly fabricate whatever clothing he needs… Except this is Peter Parker, so of course, he picks the wrong machine… The machine he chooses does give him a snazzy new black & white costume, but unknown to him at the time, it’s actually a sentient alien symbiote. After returning to Earth, and realising the symbiote is trying to permanently bond with him, he uses sound waves from a cathedral’s church bell to force it off his body. Unfortunately, it finds a new host in reporter Eddie Brock.
This take on Venom skips over all the Spidey stuff and seems to focus on Brock (played by Hardy) as a reporter investigating a shady corporation, run by Dr. Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) who has acquired the symbiote. The movie is directed by Ruben Fleischer (‘Zombieland’, ‘Gangster Squad’), and written by Jeff Pinkner (‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’, ‘Fringe’, ‘Zoo’)with Scott Rosenberg (‘Zoo’, ‘Con Air’, ‘High Fidelity’).
Venom is due to land in UK cinemas on Friday, 5th October 2018.
