VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Star Tom Hardy Addresses Rumors He'll Return As Eddie Brock In SPIDER-MAN 4

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Star Tom Hardy Addresses Rumors He'll Return As Eddie Brock In SPIDER-MAN 4

Venom: The Last Dance star Tom Hardy has finally weighed in on reports he's being eyed to return as Eddie Brock in Marvel Studios' Spider-Man 4. You can find out what the actor had to say after the jump...

By JoshWilding - Oct 22, 2024 02:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Venom

From the moment Knull, God of the Symbiotes, was revealed in Venom: The Last Dance's trailer, much has been said about what that means for Spider-Man 4.

The biggest rumour is that Tom Hardy will reprise his role as Eddie Brock for a team-up with Tom Holland's Peter which will see them battle the King in Black. It's an exciting possibility and, for many fans, a meeting that's long overdue. 

Hardy has been asked about a potential clash with Spider-Man several times while doing the rounds to promote the Venom threequel. Now, though, he's finally been pushed on whether he'll appear in the web-slinger's next solo outing. 

"I don't see him in the next Spider-Man movie because I'd have the script and I don't have that," the actor said with a smile. Is he playing deliberately coy or as in the dark as the rest of us when it comes to plans for Venom? That remains to be seen. 

Hardy has said on multiple occasions that he's done with the Venom franchise after The Last Dance, but seeing as his three-picture deal is up, there's every chance he's just negotiating a new deal with Sony in a public setting (Tom Holland did the same by talking about potentially saying goodbye to Spidey - much to the horror of fans - while promoting Spider-Man: No Way Home). 

You can hear more from Hardy in the player below.

Talking at New York Comic Con this past weekend, Hardy addressed his apparent exit from the Venom franchise. "Well, it's been seven years this day...I've absolutely loved playing Eddie and Venom," he told fans. "It's been one of the best things I've ever done in my life so it'll be sad to see him go."

Despite that, the actor added, "I would like to fight Spider-Man. I would like to fight him right now. In a movie, 100%. I would never say never."

Venom: The Last Dance writer and director Kelly Marcel was also on hand and, despite Hardy's comments, continued to hype up this movie as being the beginning of Knull's story. 

"This is just the introduction to Knull. Obviously, he's a massive character, so you could never do one and done with him, so this is just a taste of Knull, you will get to meet him and then what the future holds for him...who knows," she teased. 

"[The story of] Venom and Eddie closes here but, as you know, there are lots of Symbiote stories in the canon," Marcel added. "So there are lots of places to go and there may even be some Easter Eggs in here that starts that journey off."

Venom: The Last Dance will be released in theaters on October 25.

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Pampero
Pampero - 10/22/2024, 2:49 PM
No one wants this Venom with the MCU's Spider-Man; doesn't Sony realize that?
thewanderer
thewanderer - 10/22/2024, 3:25 PM
@Pampero - i’m not opposed to Tom Hardy‘s venom in the MCU with a better writing team. Tom Hardy’s casting isn’t the issue it’s been the stories.
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 10/22/2024, 2:49 PM
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WakandaTech
WakandaTech - 10/22/2024, 2:51 PM
So instead of Daredevil in Spiderman 4

They give us this

Nolanite
Nolanite - 10/22/2024, 2:56 PM
There goes Joshua Wilder posting his shit social media nonsense on the 50th article regarding Venom
Quit it. You're done.
Nolanite out
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 10/22/2024, 3:06 PM
@Nolanite - Keep this up and I'm going to give you a 4 hour ban
Nolanite
Nolanite - 10/22/2024, 8:13 PM
@HammerLegFoot - fight me,
You have no power here.
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 10/23/2024, 7:13 AM
@Nolanite - My power stretches galaxies
ThorArms
ThorArms - 10/22/2024, 2:58 PM
Pleeeease no
Thing94
Thing94 - 10/22/2024, 3:01 PM
I am beginning to doubt it will be Venom and Knull in Spider-Man 4
JFerguson
JFerguson - 10/22/2024, 3:08 PM
@Thing94 - I am highly confident it won’t be. Knull will be saved for that rumored sinister 6 revival.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 10/22/2024, 4:26 PM
@Thing94 -
It's all a desperate attempt to push the interest in Venom 3, teasing aspects that they've no plan to do. Imagine how stupid it would be that Venom visited the MCU in Spider-man: NWH, got sent back and then he's back again? That's idiotic.

Tom Holland's going to be stuck filming some vampire thing with Christopher Nolan for most of 2025 which will prevent him doing filming for Spider-man 4 and likely mean he has a minimal role in Avengers: Doomsday in 2026 (If he has a role in that at all). Meaning it's likely the next time his Spider-man will show up is in Avengers: Secret Wars where they'll probably just have him gain the black suit.

At which point the earliest we'd see Spider-man 4 would be 2027
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 10/22/2024, 4:40 PM
@JFerguson - you think the sinister 6 will fight him?
JFerguson
JFerguson - 10/22/2024, 6:24 PM
@MyCoolYoung - what sony considers the sinister six, yes. But we all know whatever concoction team they spurt out will never live up to the ones from the comics
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 10/22/2024, 7:25 PM
@JFerguson - oh 100%. I have no faith in Sony
JFerguson
JFerguson - 10/22/2024, 3:07 PM
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PC04
PC04 - 10/22/2024, 3:51 PM
The whole Knull thing just came about way to quick. IF he's used at all it should be way later. Spidey and Venom has a lot to get through before Knull shows up.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 10/22/2024, 4:08 PM
I sure as hell want a new take on Venom if they're planning in crossing him over with Spider-Man.

This zany/more slapstick Venom just comes off as more of a possible comedic foil than anything.
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 10/22/2024, 4:27 PM
He wouldn’t fit. New venom, please. Hardy can get back to not playing a simpleton.
TiberiousOmega
TiberiousOmega - 10/22/2024, 5:38 PM
They won’t negotiate with this guy until they see the box office on the newest movie. I personally have never watched a single Venom movie. But I’ve watched every Spider-Man movie.
Biggums
Biggums - 10/22/2024, 6:46 PM
What happened to Hardy man!
OriginalGusto1
OriginalGusto1 - 10/22/2024, 9:04 PM
@Biggums - age

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