Venom: Let There Be Carnage is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Venom, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel and Tencent Pictures. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing,
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it is intended to be the second film in the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters and the sequel to Venom (2018). The film is directed by Andy Serkis from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel. It stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock / Venom, who also contributed to the story with Marcel. Woody Harrelson also stars as Cletus Kasady / Carnage, along with Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, and Stephen Graham in supporting roles.
Cast
· Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock / Venom: An investigative journalist who is the host of an alien symbiote that imbues him with super-human abilities and a violent alter-ego is known as Venom.
· Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kasady / Carnage: A insane psychotic serial killer who becomes the host of a murderous alien symbiote known as Carnage.
· Michelle Williams as Anne Weying: A district attorney and Eddie's ex-fiancée.
· Naomie Harris as Frances Barrison / Shriek: Kasady's love interest.
· Reid Scott as Dan Lewis: A doctor and Anne's boyfriend.
· Stephen Graham as Detective Mulligan: A detective hoping to use the connection between Brock and Kasady to find the remains of Kasady's murder victims.
Additionally, Peggy Lu reprises her role as Mrs. Chen from the first film. Sean Delaney and Larry Olubamiwo have been cast in undisclosed roles
Plans
for a sequel to Venom began during production on that film,
with Harrelson cast to make a brief appearance as Kasady at the end of Venom with
the intention of him becoming the villain Carnage in the sequel. Official work
began in January 2019, with Hardy and Harrelson confirmed to return along with
Marcel as a writer. Serkis was hired as a director that August. Filming took place
at Leavesden Studios in
England from November 2019 to February 2020, with additional filming in San Francisco in February. The title was announced in
April 2020.
Venom:
Let There Be Carnage is
scheduled to be released in the United States on September 24, 2021, delayed
from an initial October 2020 date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Official Trailer:
Development
During the long development of 2018 film Venom, the character Carnage was expected to appear as an antagonist. During pre-production on that film, the creative team decided not to include the a character so they could focus on introducing the protagonists, Eddie Brock and Venom. Director Ruben Fleischer felt that leaving Venom's most formidable villain for a sequel would give the franchise "a place to go" and would be a natural next step, so Carnage's alter-ego Cletus Kasady was introduced in a mid-credits scene at the end of the first film with the intention of featuring him in a sequel. Fleischer wanted to cast Woody Harrelson in the role, feeling there was a "natural connection" between the character and Harrelson's performance in Natural Born Killers (1994), and asked Harrelson while the pair were discussing a sequel to their film Zombieland (2009). After meeting with Fleischer and Tom Hardy—who portrays Brock and Venom—for dinner, Harrelson agreed to take on the part. Harrelson described his decision as a roll of the dice since he was unable to read a script for the sequel before signing on to the first film. In August 2018, ahead of Venom's release, Hardy confirmed that he had signed on to star in two sequels.
At the end of November 2018, Sony gave an October 2, 2020 release date to an untitled Marvel sequel that was believed to be Venom 2, which would place the film in the same release timeframe as the first Venom; box office analysts believed by then that Venom had been successful enough to guarantee a sequel would be made. A month later, Venom writer Jeff Pinkner confirmed that a sequel was "happening", but he was not involved in writing it at that point.[16] Fleischer reiterated this, saying that he could not discuss a sequel but he saw the first film as Brock and Venom "coming together. So there's a natural evolution from that to [a sequel where it is] like, okay, now what's it like to live together? It's like a bromantic sort of relationship."[ In January, Kelly Marcel signed a "significant" deal with Sony to write and executive produce the sequel after also working on the script for the first film. This marked the official beginning of work on the film for the studio and was revealed alongside confirmation of Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Amy Pascal returning as producers. Hardy and Harrelson were also expected to return for the sequel, along with Michelle Williams in the role of Brock's ex-fiancée Anne Weying. No director was confirmed for the film, with Sony considering replacing Fleischer due to his commitments to Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), though he still intended to be involved in Venom 2.
By the end of July 2019, Sony hoped for
filming to begin that November and had met with several candidates to replace
Fleischer as a director since he was still completing work on Zombieland:
Double Tap at that time; directors the studio
met with include Andy Serkis, Travis Knight, and Rupert Wyatt. Sony was also
interested in Rupert Sanders directing
the film, but that "didn't work out". Serkis confirmed at
the start of August that he had discussed the project with Sony and it was
"potentially something that might happen", shortly before he
was officially hired to direct the film. Serkis was partly hired due to his
experience working with CGI and motion-capture technology as both an actor and
director. Discussing the film
soon after his hiring, Serkis said Hardy had been working closely with Marcel
on the screenplay which was "centered around their take". Fleischer said he
was happy to let Serkis take over the franchise following the negative critical
reaction that the first film received, believing reviewers had unfairly treated
the "crowd-pleasing movie", potentially due to biases against Sony and
towards Marvel Studios rival
superhero films. By the time Serkis
was hired, Hutch Parker had joined the sequel as a producer. A friend of Sony
Pictures chairman Tom Rothman, Parker previously served as a
producer for several Marvel-based films produced by 20th Century Fox.
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