Venom: Let There Be Carnage Brings New Meaning to ‘Paint the Town Red’
15th October of this year, Eddie Brock and Venom made an action-packed comeback to the silver screen, joined by newcomer symbiote Carnage, in Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
Carnage is not the only new addition to the sequel. Andy Serkis makes this his fourth director credit in four years.
He brings amazing visuals and awesome fight sequences and with him an old friend from his next most recent directors’ credit, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, the beautiful Naomie Harris as Frances Barrison, or Shriek.
Far from her previous well-known roles such as Secretary Moneypenny in the James Bond Franchise, Harris shows us her villainous side in an origin story that takes an exciting more deep, psychological, route
Tom Hardy returns as Eddie Brock and the voice of Venom, bringing the same hilarious banter we caught a peak of at the end of the last film, ridiculous in places yet I hardly questioned a thing.
Beneath everything, you could say this film is a story driven by relationships as visions of heartbreak and heart-warming reunion shine through.
But the thing that filled the social media platforms post-release was the end credit scene featuring an appearance of Tom Hollands, Spider-Man.
Don’t get too excited! It’s just an image on a television but even that has extremely interesting consequences for the future of the MCU.
It’s no secret that, despite public denial from the actors in question, the internet has run wild with rumours about all previous Spider-Men thus far colliding in a single timeline in the new release, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
The end-credit scene depicts Brock and Venom hiding out in a run-down hotel room in one of their typical calorie loading sessions as Venom gossips about his family ‘back home’.
Then, in a glitch-like effect reminiscent of Wanda Maximoff’s malfunctioning depiction of West View or Loki teleporting along the sacred timeline with the TVA’s tempads, their surroundings transform.
The room seems to upgrade by a decade or two and that’s when we see a still of Tom Holland on a bulletin from the Daily Bugle, revived from the Tobey Maguire movies — original actor and all, announcing what is now common knowledge, Peter Parker is Spider-Man!
Venom recognises him immediately and leans closer to the TV and his menacing tongue reaches for the image.
But Venom only eats bad men … right?
