Is it weird to feel this affectionately about a guy and his symbiote? The most endearing odd-couple partnership in comic-book-movies continues this fall with the third Venom movie, which is now titled Venom: The Last Dance.
The Last Dance has as its director Kelly Marcel, who wrote the first two films and created the underrated adaptation of Victor LaValle’s The Changeling. Marcel also wrote the screenplay for this one, based on a story developed with star Tom Hardy. Clearly, no one understands the Eddie/Venom relationship quite like the guy who performs both parts of it.
Not one single plot detail has been announced, but the cast is good news: Juno Temple (Fargo), Chiwetel Ejiofor (The Old Guard) and Marcel’s Changeling star Clark Backo will join Hardy for the latest symbiotic adventure. Last month, Temple told Variety, “It’s been a wild, wonderful ride. … I can’t wait for it to get out into the world. I think it’s going to be a good one.”
Eddie and Venom haven’t been on screen since the end of 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home; the post-credits scene for that film saw the dynamic duo in the midst of a drunken study of MCU history. Their poor bartender got stiffed when they were suddenly transported back to their own universe (after being zapped to the one with superheroes in the Venom: Let There Be Carnage post-credits clip). Just a totally normal thing to have happen; I’m sure everyone involved took it in stride.
Venom: The Last Dance waltzes into theaters on October 25th.
