Venom: Let There Be Carnage releases next month and today, fans got a nice Monday morning treat as a new trailer unleashes maximum symbiote war between Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson). After more than a year of co-existing with the alien symbiote to become a protector in 2018’s Venom, Eddie Brock is back trying to get back into journalism. He interviews Kasady and tries to get him to reveal where his victims are buried. Venom 2 will explore more of Eddie Brock and Venom’s bond while bringing out maximum carnage in Sony’s upcoming Marvel film.
Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings, Black Panther, Planet of the Apes Trilogy) directs Venom 2
“This character was so much fun to work on in design and to take [from] the comic world,” director Andy Serkis previously told IGN about bringing the sociopathic Spider-Man villain to life in the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters. “It was wonderful having the opportunity to take this character that’s never been seen before on screen, as much as you do get to know him in our story and to really play with the physicality, how he moves, how he extrudes his tentacles.”
In Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which reveals a lot of Kasady’s abilities, the much more dangerous symbiote than Venom “can turn to mist. He can turn to all manner of tendrils. He can take different forms. He can weaponize, he can do all of these different things,” Serkis said. “With all symbiotes, they reflect the person who is their host. So the darkness of Carnage, the playfulness, the wit, the strangeness. Cletus has a real intelligence and… a real sense of humor, and we wanted to reflect that in the symbiote that is linked to him.”
Kasady’s symbiote is known to be one of the dangerous villains in Marvel Comics and proves to have a stronger bond with his symbiote than Eddie Brock and Venom. In the majority of Carnage’s battle against Spider-Man, the red symbiote usually comes out on top.
“In the same way that Cletus is manipulative psychologically and physically, he can take your energy and completely shift it for you,” Serkis said, teasing the blockbuster showdown between the archenemies. “So we wanted the whole movement style to be very idiosyncratic and off-kilter and strange, and you just can’t pin him down. It would be like trying to have a fight with an octopus, basically.”
Directed by Andy Serkis, Venom: Let There Be Carnage brings back Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams. It also stars Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, and Woody Harrelson.
Sony Pictures’ Venom: Let There Be Carnage debuts only in theaters this September 24th.
