The newest trailer has been released by Sony Pictures for Marvel’s upcoming superhero spinoff series Venom and this time it doesn’t disappoint. The first trailer was just a tease and didn’t show the titular anti-hero, but this one shows Venom in full form.
Last weekend on Instagram Tom Hardy teased that he would bring the thunder at CinemaCom and he sure did. Hardy introduced a new trailer Venom during Sony’s presentation.
Marvel’s new superhero spinoff series stars Tom Hardy who plays a reporter named Eddie Brock as well as Venom, an “alien symbiote” stuck in a human body. Brock’s body is possessed by the symbiote which gives him Spider-Man-like powers.
The first trailer didn’t give much in the way of plot details and offered only vague hints about the anti-hero’s origin story. The newest trailer starts with Hardy’s Eddie Brock as a tough journalist dealing with Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed as he uncovers nefarious exploitation at a corporate entity — resulting in a subsequent visit at his run-down apartment from henchmen who are there to dispatch him.
Hardy then partially transforms into Venom and quickly kills his attackers. Eddie Brock then looks at his hand bewildered wondering what has happened. At the end of the trailer we get to see Eddie Brock as he fully forms into the alien symbiote with massive powers and proclaims, “We… Are Venom.” They also released a new poster for the movie.
Venom marks the very beginning of “Sony’s Marvel Universe,” and they have insisted that film will take place in the same setting as 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, which takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Then again, Marvel has insisted that Venom is not a part of the MCU. Confusing, but it leaves the door open for Marvel to include Venom at some point if it suits them.
Venom is set for wide release on October 5, 2018.