Sony has officially delayed Venom 2's release date by eight months. While it was far from a critical darling, the first Venom was a huge box office success (grossing $856 million on an estimated $100 million budget) and lay the groundwork for Sony to continue develop solo films centered around villains and antiheroes from the Spider-Man comic books. Suffice it to say, Venom 2 has since received a green-light.
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Tom Hardy is already confirmed to be returning as Eddie Brock/Venom, which is not exactly a huge surprise.
“I can say that Tom Hardy will be back, magnificently playing that character as no one else can,” producer Amy Pascal said.
“When you think of Venom [the character], you’ll never be able to think of anyone but Tom Hardy sitting in that bathtub of lobsters. And once you saw Tom Hardy do this character, that’s all you needed to know.”
Michelle Williams has also confirmed she’ll be reprising her role of Anne Weying. “I’m in,” she told Yahoo!, noting that she’d like to spend more time as She-Venom in the sequel.
“I hope I get equal time that way — I can say that!” she said
Although it's unclear if the two Spider-Man antihero movies will connect to one another in any significant way, the trailers for Morbius have indicated Sony is using the film to further build up to the Sinister Six crossover they've been wanting to make for years (going back to before Spider-Man joined the MCU).
As such, it might be important for Jared Leto's vampiric superhero to make his way to the big screen before Hardy gets his symbiote on again, from an overarching storytelling perspective.
At the moment, Venom 2 is scheduled to open two weeks after Jurassic World: Dominion, which will be targeting most of the same demographics. However, with production on the third Jurassic World shut-down for the time being because of the coronavirus, odds are the dino-sequel will eventually be pushed back to a later spot in 2021
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