“Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is the second movie with the Marvel superhero, Venom, that is scheduled to be theatrically released this fall.
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- Venom: Let There Be Carnage is an upcoming American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Venom.
- It is produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel and Tencent Pictures.
- It is distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
- It is intended to be the second film in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe and the sequel to Venom (2018).
- The film is directed by Andy Serkis.
- Kelly Marcel wrote the screenplay.
- The screenplay is based on a story she wrote with Tom Hardy who stars as Eddie Brock / Venom.
- Tom Hardy stars alongside Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, and Woody Harrelson.
- In the film, Brock tries to reignite his career in journalism by interviewing serial killer Cletus Kasady (Harrelson), who becomes the host of an alien symbiote similar to Venom named Carnage.
- Venom was intended to be the start of a new shared universe, and plans for a sequel began during production on the first film.
- Harrelson was cast to make a brief appearance as Kasady at the end of Venom with the intention of him becoming the villain Carnage in the sequel.
- Official work on the sequel began in January 2019.
- It was back then when Hardy and Harrelson confirmed to return along with Marcel as writer.
- Serkis was hired as director that August, partly due to his experience working with CGI and motion-capture technology which was an important part of portraying Venom and Carnage in the film.
- Andy Serkis was announced as the new director of the sequel over Travis Knight, Rupert Sanders and Rupert Wyatt.
- Filming took place at Leavesden Studios in England.
- It started on November 2019 and lasted until February 2020.
- Additional filming took place in San Francisco in February.
- The title was announced in April 2020.
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on October 15, 2021.
- It was delayed from an initial October 2020 date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Andy Serkis wanted Carnage to have “off-kilter and strange” motions that would fit his powers and nature.
- “Cletus has real intelligence and humor, and that’s reflected in the symbiote that is linked to him; Carnage’s playfulness, wit and strangeness, you just can’t pin him down. Fighting Carnage would be like trying to have a fight with an octopus basically.” Serkis and his team worked with a group of dancers and actors on a performance-capture stage to test and build out Carnage’s movements.
- Andy Serkis cites “The Odd Couple” as an influence on the relationship between Eddie Brock and Venom.
- When Brock enters Mrs Chen’s shop, Venom arranges a stack of magazines for her. On the cover of those magazines is Marvel writer Stan Lee.
- The film cast includes four Oscar nominees: Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Naomie Harris and Michelle Williams.
- Tom Hardy received his first story credit for this film, making him the fifth person to receive writing credit for a comic book superhero film that he also starred in, after Christopher Reeve (Superman 4 (1987)), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man (2015)), and Edward Norton (Incredible Hulk) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool 2 (2018)).
- The film was originally intended to be released in North America on October 2, 2020. But due to the 2019-present coronavirus pandemic, the film’s release date was pushed to June 25, 2021.
- This film was one of a handful of Marvel films produced both by Sony and Marvel that saw their release dates shifted in the wake of the pandemic. It also affected the North American release dates of “Morbius”, which was scheduled for release in July 2020 to March 19, 2021 and an untitled Spider-Man sequel from July 16, 2021 to November 5, 2021.
- The Fourth Marvel film to be scored by Marco Beltrami after Λόγκαν (2017), Fantastic 4 (2015), and Wolverine (2013)
- The first Andy Serkis film not to have music composed by Nitin Sawhney.
- This is the first Venom movie to be shot in the taller 1.85:1 aspect ratio, unlike its predecessor which was filmed in Cooke /i Scope (anamorphic) 2.39:1.
- It is not a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
- Principal photography began on November 15, 2019, at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire, England, under the working title Fillmore.
- Robert Richardson served as cinematographer for the film, reuniting with Serkis after they worked together on Breathe (2017).
- Filming took place at the campus of London South Bank University in mid-January 2020.
- In Potrero Hill, the Anchor Brewery stood in for a police station, while filming in Nob Hill took place at Grace Cathedral on February 20 and 21.
- Filming also took place at the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District
- Marco Beltrami was revealed to be the composer for the film in December 2020, after previously composing for several Marvel-based films produced by Parker.
- Hardy confirmed in August 2018 that he had also signed on to star in a third Venom film.
