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In the post-credits scenes for both Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Spider-Man: No Way Home, a possible Venom and Spider-Man crossover was teased as fans have been clamoring for Tom Hardy’s anti-hero and Tom Holland’s web-head to finally come face-to-face on the big screen.
Unfortunately, that may not happen. On Tuesday (March 12) the official title to the third installment of Sony’s successful Venom franchise was revealed. And it really seems like Hardy will be hanging up his black alien symbiotie suit by the time the end of credits roll. According to Variety, Venom 3 will be dubbed Venom: The Last Dance, and judging from the title alone the film will serve as Venom’s swan song in Sony’s Spider-Verse that’s been struggling like hell to get off the ground.
Though their have been rumors that the film will ultimately lead to Venom making his way into the MCU to finally meet your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, details about the film have remained under wraps with just rumors that the Marvel villain, Toxin, would be the main antagonist in the film and Chiwetel Ejiofor will be taking on the role of another villain, Orwell Taylor.
Lackluster, yes, we know. But this is apparently the road that writers for Venom: The Last Dance have chosen to go down for what seems to be the final installment.
Variety reports:
Sony first announced the third film was in the works during its CinemaCon presentation in April 2022. The project will be the first appearance of Venom since a credits sequence cameo in 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”
In February, Temple opened up about the project to Variety, teasing that filming was almost complete. “We’re coming close to an end at the moment,” she said. “It’s been a wild, wonderful ride. It’s so new to me. It’s a big set! This is crazy. It’s been so much fun and I got to work with such cool people. I’ve been so lucky in my career to just have the most incredible casts. I can’t wait for it to get out into the world. I think it’s going to be a good one.”
After the atrocity that was Madame Web, it’s probably best for Sony to just put it’s Spider-Man-less Spider-Verse out of its misery already.
Venom: The Last Dance is set to hit theaters Oct. 25. If it proves to be the final film in the franchise with no connection to any Spider-Man whatsoever (not even Tobey McGuire or Andrew Garfield), the franchise will not be missed. No shots.
Will you be checking out Venom: The Last Dance when it hits theaters this fall? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Wait, is a Doctor Strange character about to make his way onto Sony’s Spider-Verse and make that connection to the MCU?
We’re not sure what’s going on but according to Deadline, Chiwetel Ejiofor has just been cast to join Tom Hardy and company in Venom 3 in an undisclosed role and now people are speculating about the possibilities the addition could lead to. MCU fans are familiar with Ejiofor’s role as “Baron Mordo” in Marvel Studio’s Doctor Strange franchise in which Ejiofor is capable of the kind of magic that could possibly have him traveling various realities. Does this mean Baron Mordo can open up the door for Venom to make his way into the MCU? Maybe. Maybe not.
Deadline reports:
Plot details are unknown other than Hardy is returning as the lethal protector Venom following the first two films grossing a combined $1.36 billion worldwide. It also is unknown who will be joining Hardy from previous films or whether any characters from the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters will be joining the film.
Who Ejiofor will be playing is being kept under wraps.
It would be interesting to see whether Venom joins the MCU in time to faceoff with Tom Holland’s Peter Parker in Spider-Man 4, but for a while now rumors had Andrew Garfield reprising his own iteration of Spider-Man to take on the “Lethal Protector” in Venom 3. No one’s confirmed a damn thing, but fans have been speculating about this crossover for a hot minute and the end credits to Venom 2and Spider-Man: No Way Home added much fuel to that burning fire.
Now that Chiwetel Ejiofor will be joining Venom 3, rumors will begin to run even more rampant until Sony or Marvel disclose exactly what role Ejiofor will be taking on in the Sony Pictures film.
What do y’all think of Chiwetel Ejiofor’s casting in Venom 3? Will he be making that MCU connection or do y’all think it’ll be an entirely different role altogether? Let us know in the comments section below.
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