VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Confirmed to Be Final Movie and It's "Going to Be Huge"
Yes, as the title implies, Venom: The Last Dance will be the last Venom movie that Tom Hardy will be a part of. This update was shared by Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman, who said it would be the "third and last" installment.
Rothman went on to say that the movie is “going to be huge,” but I want to point out that huge doesn’t mean good. I personally feel like Hardy, the creative team, and the Sony executives dropped the ball on Venom and that this franchise should’ve been so much more awesome than what we got. It was such wasted potential.
So, I’m glad that this iteration of the franchise is coming to an end. But, it’s not the last time that we’ll see Venom on the big screen. While this series is ending, we will see a new version of Venom come into the MCU, possibly with Spider-Man 4.
A piece of the symbiote was left in the MCU in the post-credits scene of Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and there are plans to play with that. So, it makes sense that they would end one iteration of Venom to make room for a new one.
Venom: The Last Dance is being directed by Kelly Marcel (Fifty Shades of Grey). She also wrote and produced the first two Venom movies. The script of this third film is based on a story that she developed with Hardy.
There are no details to share in regard to the story, but co-star Juno Temple did tease: "I'm learning lots. It's fun and interesting because there are so many things that you film that when the movie finally comes out will look different to what they were when we were filming them. I'm excited to see the creations that happen off camera, too."
Hardy also explained in a previous interview: "These things [usually] come in threes. If there's going to be a new one – and they depend heavily on the success of each individual one, so you can't count on them ever happening again – every one has got to be as if it was the last one.
“But I think it's really important, if you go into something, thinking that one, two and three are the same... the same story, the same film. So that you don't surprise yourself by being caught out by suddenly having to do a third from nowhere.
“There's got to be some continuity into a third and fourth and fifth, and if somebody says 'no', that's fine. Let it go, and you move on to something else."
The movie is produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, Amy Pascal, and Hutch Parker.
Venom: The Last Dance hits theaters on October 25th.