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Tom Hardy already making plans for third ‘Venom’ movie

Actor Tom Hardy also hinted that he was trying to steer the franchise into a ‘Venom’/ ‘Spider-Man’ combo.

by Cover Media

12-08-2021 18:48

in Entertainment

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Tom Hardy is already thinking about a third Venom movie.

In the 2018 superhero movie, the British actor played Eddie Brock, a journalist who gains superpowers after becoming the host of an alien symbiote named Venom, and he reprises the role in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which will be released in September.

Tom Hardy: ‘Studio really, really pleased’ with No 2

In an interview with Esquire UK magazine, Hardy revealed that he’s already making plans for a third instalment.

“I’m thinking about the third movie as well, because I think you need to write that at the same time,” he said.

“A third won’t be greenlit until the second is successful, but the studio was really, really pleased with number two.”

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Hardy wants ‘Venom’/ ‘Spider-Man’ combo

Hardy pitched the storyline for the sequel and has a “story by” credit along with screenwriter and old friend Kelly Marcel. When asked if they were working together on the story for a third, he became coy.

However, he willingly admitted he was trying to steer the franchise so Venom – a character most commonly associated with Spider-Man – could eventually appear in the same film as Tom Holland’s web-slinging superhero.

“I would be remiss if I wasn’t trying to steer any kind of connectivity,” he stated.

‘Should both sides be willing…I don’t see why it couldn’t be’

“I wouldn’t be doing the job if I wasn’t awake and open to any opportunity or eventuality or be excited by that. Obviously, that’s a large canyon to leap, to be bridged by one person alone, and it would take a much higher level of diplomacy and intelligence, sitting down and talking, to take on an arena such as that,” Hardy said.

“Should both sides be willing, and it (is) beneficial to both sides, I don’t see why it couldn’t be. I hope and strongly, with both hands, push, eagerly, towards that potential, and would do anything to make that happen, within what’s right in business.”