VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Star Tom Hardy Would Return For A LOGAN-Style Movie...With An R-Rating!

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Star Tom Hardy Would Return For A LOGAN-Style Movie...With An R-Rating!

Venom: The Last Dance star Tom Hardy has confirmed he'd be open to reprising the role of Eddie Brock in an R-Rated Logan-style movie. Find his and filmmaker Kelly Marcel's comments in full right here...

By JoshWilding - Oct 27, 2024 05:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Venom
Source: The Wrap

At this point, the Venom franchise is what it is. Ask most fans, and they'd say it should have picked up with Eddie Brock after clashing with Spider-Man for an R-Rated series of movies about him serving as San Francisco's Lethal Protector. 

Sony Pictures wouldn't have needed to include Spidey in that, as Venom's origin story could have played out off-screen. Instead, the decision was made to put a new spin on the character, ditching Spider-Man altogether and telling a goofy, PG-13 buddy story about Eddie and his Symbiote. 

Venom: The Last Dance is billed as Tom Hardy's final Venom movie, though rumours continue to swirl that he'll either be back for Spider-Man 4 or some sort of Sony-produced team-up project with Knull as the big bad. 

The Wrap asked Hardy and writer/director Kelly Marcel whether they ever think about making a Logan-style Venom movie that's dark, gritty, and R-Rated.

"Oh yeah!" the actor replied before the filmmaker chimed in to say, "We’re desperate to do that! Desperate!"

Hardy added, "We’ve already got that. We envisioned that on 'Venom 2.' We’re already there. We’re quick as well. It’s like we’ve got four or five movies already on the side, in different tones, with multiple characters."

"If you ask us to do something. We’re not shy, but we have to edit down to what the mission statement is. We’re both busy heads. If we say we’re going to do something, we mean it."

Will a Venom movie like this ever happen? Given the success of Deadpool & Wolverine this summer and the fact Kraven the Hunter boasts an R-Rating, we'd imagine it's something Sony is at least open to considering for a future project. 

You can check out our interview with Marcel in the player below.

"The most cinematic, monumental Venom movie to date, we said in our recent review of the movie, "The Last Dance leaves room for improvement but by upping the stakes and allowing Eddie and Venom to bond, it’s epic and heartfelt enough to leave us hoping this is far from Tom Hardy’s last whirl as the Lethal Protector."

In Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy returns as Venom, one of Marvel's greatest and most complex characters, for the final film in the trilogy. Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance.

The movie stars Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Peggy Lu, Alanna Ubach, Stephen Graham, and Rhys Ifans. Kelly Marcel directs from a screenplay she wrote, based on a story by Hardy and Marcel. The film is produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, Amy Pascal, Kelly Marcel, Tom Hardy and Hutch Parker.

Venom: The Last Dance is now playing in theaters.

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Unites
Unites - 10/27/2024, 6:25 AM
Those movies should have been R-rated from the beginning. It was especially noticable in the second one that they were forced to hold back.
dragon316
dragon316 - 10/27/2024, 8:06 AM
@Unites - first one was acceptable as pg13 but sequels should be r rated
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/27/2024, 9:19 AM
@Unites - I agree. But, from the point of 'it is what it is,' I enjoyed the 1st one at least.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 10/27/2024, 6:46 AM
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FrankenDad
FrankenDad - 10/27/2024, 7:22 AM
That’s a dream outta reach, friend.
GeekSmarts
GeekSmarts - 10/27/2024, 7:29 AM
Unfortunately once Kraven the Animal Rights Activist bombs at the box office Sony will blame the R rating and not the poor concept/execution, effectively killing any chance for something like this.
Blergh
Blergh - 10/27/2024, 7:49 AM
@GeekSmarts - Sony is the worst. I can’t say this enough. Amy Pascal is bitter over the MCUs success and is trying to prove her superiority by weaseling her way into it and snatching it away while Tom Rothman is happy making promotional contracts with brands that haven’t realized yet that the Sony Marvel universe isn’t the MCU
dragon316
dragon316 - 10/27/2024, 8:10 AM
@Blergh - some of it is good thing looking she hulk , how she hulk treated wrecking crew as joke push overs, taskmaster modok , who knows what other characters marvel made look bad that was good in comics most are forgettable for me barely remember wrecking crew at times , taskmaster ticked off costumer gives female character power remember everything and fighting skills
Skestra
Skestra - 10/27/2024, 9:29 AM
@dragon316 - But to play devil's advocate, they were all better than "Secret Invasion".
Blergh
Blergh - 10/27/2024, 7:47 AM
Why not do that in the first place, then? I’m so tired of Sony getting away with their bullshit while trying to overimpose themselves over something I still quite enjoy because of a one off hit.
The MCU is suffering from ever worsening storytelling and got stale. That is true but Sony using that weak point to gain more power over the MCU by holding Spider-Man hostage is really angering me.

They could have made this their own universe with their own Spider-Man but instead they keep trying to force themselves in a he MCU and have their films suffer for it.
From Venom 1 onwards this should have been a sequel to the Amazing Spider-Man universe or introduced its own version. If there REALLY were any issues with Disney (which I can’t imagine) they could have easily gone for a proxy in Ben Reilly, Spider-Noir or Miles Morales. But instead they chose to wait for the MCU to grow weaker and insert themselves by force.

These movies could have been great, imagine this movie being the Venom arc for Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man in a “love triangle” between Eddie, Peter and Venom?
Could have led into Agent Venom. Could have been a lot but instead it’s just true CG garbage. It’s even more impressive how the second one was worse, despite having Carnage.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/27/2024, 9:23 AM
@Blergh - I absolutely agree with you and SONY just sucks.
However, Marvel dug its own hole years back when they sold off the rights to about a 3rd of their characters to multiple studios. I understand why they did it, but Sony's sh1tty films are here today because of that huge mistake and lack of vision back then.
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 10/27/2024, 7:48 AM
Absurd. The only good thing about Last Dance is that it’s the LAST movie. As if a R rating would make this zany odd couple any better.
GodHercules20
GodHercules20 - 10/27/2024, 8:07 AM
No more Venom movies pls

Keep him as a goofy Spider Man villain. He ain't Carnage
OptimusCrime
OptimusCrime - 10/27/2024, 9:14 AM
Nah thanks,

Maybe for Dragon316, but the majority of us is fine without it.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 10/27/2024, 10:28 AM
They probably should have had a top notch story if they weren't going down the R rated route. Imagine if Terrifer was pg-13 haha. Sure it's not the same, but at least with an R rating you could really go off the rails. Instead, the result is a half assed franchise made for teens and [frick] bois
MahN166A
MahN166A - 10/27/2024, 10:57 AM
That should have been the priority when the first movie came out.
DarkOak
DarkOak - 10/27/2024, 12:26 PM
Tom Hardy is a fantastic actor but them films were disgustingly bad
Batmangina
Batmangina - 10/27/2024, 12:46 PM
Can't wait for VOGAN to be RATED R and JONKLE MY JIMMIES
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 10/27/2024, 1:23 PM
You can tell that Sony really had no proper plan for a storyline for any of their villain films. They had Knull as their "Thanos" and they could have really had a decent little Universe led by both Tom Hardy and Andrew Garfield. They could have even continued the Spider-Verse storyline with a variant of Gwen Stacy (Stone) returning.
Biggums
Biggums - 10/27/2024, 11:11 PM
Go Home, Hardy!
DemonTweeks
DemonTweeks - 10/28/2024, 4:30 AM
all 3 were "R" in the UK ( 15 certificate ) which makes things even more weird tbh as they were well short of being a rating deserving of that.
OrgasmicPotatoe
OrgasmicPotatoe - 10/28/2024, 7:22 AM
Make it STOP ! This is torture !

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