Poison 3cheekily subtitled the The last dance, looks like a splashy payoff for one of the weirder franchises of the superhero movie era. Tom Hardy is back as Eddie Brock and on the run from some armed scientists who believe the Venom symbiote must be exterminated for the sake of Earth. I’m crossing my fingers, this is it The refugee / Midnight run with a Venom horse.
Venom: The Last Dance seems to pick up where we left Eddie and Venom Venom: Let there be carnage: Lying low in the tropics after killing serial killer Cletus and leaving Detective Mulligan (Stephen Graham) infected with his own symbiote. But if you’re a total sucker for this stuff, you might be wondering: Hey, didn’t Eddie and Venom cross over into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a post-credits tease at the end of Let there be a massacre? Yes, they did! At least that seemed to be happening, a theoretical connection to Doctor Strange’s multiversal spell Spider-Man: No way home.
But in the end, only Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire’s previous Spider-Mans appeared in the crossover film – no Venom. Marvel even went so far as to undo the entire plague. A post-credits scene No way home saw Eddie grumbling in a bar over his displacement in the multiverse, only to be instantly transported back to his walled-off Sony-Marvel timeline in a flash. Nothing mattered! Wild.
So here we are, The last dance, with Eddie and Venom back where they started: on the run, biting their heads, and excited for more black blobs. There are a few rumors spread across dubious corners of the internet that Eddie might somehow be hunting down a 10-year-old Peter Parker, but the trailer all but dispels the post-credits-inspired hope. We get a tease of Mulligan’s transformation into Toxin, and while Chiwetel Ejiofor shows up as a major villain, he doesn’t play Karl Mordo Doctor Strange – just a guy in army fatigues who probably bonds with a symbiote for one final battle. Ted LasSo‘S Juno Temple is also in the cast, and is also rumored to be doing some symbiotes.
Venom: The Last Dancewhich doesn’t take place in the MCU timeline, will be released on October 25.