VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Clip of "Utterly Mad" Venom Horse and The Director Shares Insight on That
A new clip has been released for Venom: The Last Dance and it features the scene where the symbiote takes over a horse. It’s a build-up to what is sure to be a wild scene.
Writer and director Kelly Marcel recently talked about the concept behind the Venom horse, telling Entertainment Weekly what Tom Hardy’s initial reaction was, saying:
"When I gave him the first draft [of the script] and Venom Horse was in it, he just sent me loads of crying laughing and crying emojis. He was like, 'This is brilliant.' He loved it so much."
Marcel added. "If you slow Venom Horse down, you'll see that he's got this crazy wild look on his face. He's utterly mad."
Elaborating on what Hardy loved so much about this moment, she explained: "The line in the script, after he turns into Venom Horse, is: 'Eddie climbs aboard, and Venom Horse gallops like absolute steaming f--- across the desert, while he holds on for dear life.' That was the sentence, and then we had to make it real."
When talking about shooting the scene, she said: "Tommy has to act next to nothing, stand there touching something that isn't actually there, and react to a thing that isn't actually happening.
“Then we put Tommy on wires, and we fly him up onto the back of like a bucking bronco thing from a cowboy bar. We flew him up and slammed him onto the back of one of those."
"As soon as that horse takes off, it becomes a CGI horse. We then go to a stage with a blue screen, and we put Tommy on more wires on the back of a fake horse and then blow tons and tons and tons of wind at him and make him fly. He's flying Superman style, holding on to what are supposed to be tendrils."
Marcel admitted: "We laughed so much during the making of this. The first time I saw that horse, I just was on the floor laughing because he was so funny.
“Even in the rough early stages of it, you could really tell that this thing looked utterly mad and chaotic, and like it was having the time of its life. And it just continued to get funnier and funnier and funnier."
Check out the clip below!