Summary
Sony Pictures has released the first trailer forVenom: The Last Dance, looking to be the final chapter of Tom Hardy’s symbiote trilogy which began in 2018. Featuring both Eddie Brock and Venom as wanted fugitives, it looks as though the symbiotic duo will be on the run from both humans and symbioses alike. As such,Venom 3’snew trailerfeatures some key reveals and teases for the upcoming movie.
Set to release in October,Venom: The Last Danceis Tom Hardy’s third outing as the classic Marvel Comics anti-hero Venom. However, that doesn’t include Venom’s brief cameo appearance in the MCU at the end of 2021’sSpider-Man: No Way Home. To that end,here are the top 10 biggest reveals and teases forVenom: The Last Dance, including connections to Eddie and Venom’s brief trip to the MCU.
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10Venom 3 Will Begin Shortly After No Way Home’s Post-Credits
Eddie’s Wearing The Same Clothes
At the beginning ofVenom: The Last Dance’sfirst trailer, Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock is wearing the same clothes he was wearing both inVenom: Let There Be Carnageand inSpider-Man: No Way Homewhen he and his symbiote were inadvertently transported to the MCU thanks to Doctor Strange’s botched spell. However, Eddie and Brock were not involved in the events ofNo Way Homeseeing as Eddie was instead drunk in Mexico. While they planned to go find Spider-Man, the duo was instead sent back thanks to the new spell cast by Strange as seenNo Way Home’spost-credits.
As a result, it looks as though the beginning ofThe Last Dancewill feature Eddie and Venom still in Mexico before finding themselves in the sights of a new military outfit seemingly tasked with the study and containment of symbiotes. Likewise, it seems as though more symbioses will be making their way to Earth as well. To that end, it looks as though Eddie might be stuck with his Mexico threads and crocs for a significant portion of the movie.
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Cast
For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the trials and tribulations of being a superhero. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) asks for help from Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) when his identity becomes a problem for the ones he loves. Unfortunately, when the spell goes wrong, Spider-Man will now have to face off with villains such as Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) and Electro (Jamie Foxx) as Peter finally comes to terms that he can’t run from being Spider-Man. Supported by his close friends and help from an unexpected place (or multiverse), Spider-Man will go toe-to-toe with some of the most legendary foes in his storied history.
9There’s At Least One Scene Set In The MCU
The Fate of The Symbiote Piece Revealed
While Eddie and Venom were sent back to their own universe at the end ofNo Way Home, a piece of Venom’s symbiote was left behind at the bar in the MCU. As such, this seemingly opened the door forTom Holland’s Spider-Man to eventually interact with Venom. However, the trailer forThe Last Dancereveals a different fate for the piece of Venom.
In the trailer forVenom: The Last Dance, the bartender fromNo Way Home(Ted Lasso’sCristóbal Fernández) is about to touch the symbiote, only for Chiwetel Ejiofor’s character to trap it in a containment tube. Playing some sort of military commander connected to this new organization studying symbiotes, it seems as though Ejiofor and his forces can travel across dimensions seeing as how they’re later featured pursuing Eddie and Venom. Either that, or the symbiote fragment did indeed travel back to a parallel bar in Venom’s universe, complete with an identical variant of Fernandez' bartender (which would be very confusing).
8Venom: The Last Dance Teases More Captured Symbiotes
Were They Searching For Venom?
At a remote military facility, multiple symbiotes are featured in containment units. Revealing that this group’s goal is to keep the truth about extraterrestrial life a secret from the public, it looks as though capturing Eddie and Venom is a top priority. Likewise, the group’s implied leading scientist is played by Juno Temple (Fargoand alsoTed Lasso).
Seeing as how Venom is confirmed to be a fugitive in the eyes of his own symbiotic species known as the Kylntar, perhaps these new symbiotes had been tasked with finding Venom, only to be captured before they could.These do seem to be brand-new symbiotes inThe Last Dance, seeing as how the ones captured by the Life Foundation in the firstVenomwere all destroyedaside from Venom himself.
7Venom 3 Sets Up Patrick Mulligan’s Toxin
The Spawn Of Carnage And Venom
The end ofLet There Be Carnageteased the origins ofDetective Patrick Mulligan (Stephen Graham) as Toxin. In the comics, Toxin was the 100th symbiote spawned from the same lineage as Venom and Carnage. To that end, Toxin is meant to be far more powerful than the average symbiote.
To that end,it’s revealed that the military/science organization inThe Last Dancehas captured Mulligan who looks to have bonded with Toxin. While the Toxin symbiote has yet to be featured in full, it’s clear that Mulligan is fighting the symbiotic bond. That said, a full takeover with Mulligan as Toxin’s first host will likely be imminent with the movie’s release in October, potentially becoming a key antagonist for Venom.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Venom: Let There Be Carnage, directed by Andy Serkis, follows Eddie Brock, portrayed by Tom Hardy, as he struggles to coexist with the alien symbiote Venom. The film introduces the antagonist Cletus Kasady, a serial killer transformed into the menacing Carnage after becoming host to an alien symbiote.
6The Klyntar Are Coming For Venom In The Last Dance
Venom Is A Wanted Alien Fugitive
As meteors fall to Earth from orbit,Venom tells Eddie inThe Last Dance’strailer that his home has found them. This suggests that a Kylntar invasion could very well be underway. As such, it will likely be a force that only Venom and Eddie will be able to stop unless they get some help potentially from Toxin should he prove himself to be an ally rather than a foe.
At any rate, preventing more symbiotes from finding Earth was something Eddie and Venom were able to delay by defeating Riot in the firstVenommovie. However, it seems as though it was only a matter of time before Venom was found. After all, the symbiote race known as the Klyntar is connected via an intricate hivemind in the comics, one that Venom does indeed reference at the end ofLet There Be Carnage.
5Venom: The Last Dance Teases A Major Sequence In Las Vegas
Reuniting With Mrs. Chen
While a good portion ofThe Last Dancesees Eddie and Venom in the desert, it looks as though they’ll eventually make their way to Las Vegas. Featured wearing a tuxedo, the purpose behind Eddie and Venom’s goal in Vegas is unknown.However, they do reunite with none other than Mrs. Chen (Peggy Lu)who ran the convenience store near Eddie’s apartment and was well aware of Venom after he and Eddie helped save her store from being robbed in the first movie.
Most recently,Mrs. Chen had a brief cameo in Sony’sAcross the Spider-Verse, helping establish that Venom’s reality does exist as part of the greater Spider-Verse/Marvel multiverse. Now, it looks as though she’ll be enjoying a vacation at a Las Vegas casino before reuniting with Eddie. There’s even a sequence in the trailer where she’s briefly shown dancing with Venom himself.
4Rhys Ifans Has A Confusing Role In Venom 3
He Doesn’t Seem To Be Curt Connors' Lizard
At one point, it does look as though a family will pick up Eddie/Venom in the desert and give them a ride to Vegas. However, it’s worth noting that the father is being played by none other than Rhys Ifans who playedDoctor Curt Connors aka The Lizard inThe Amazing Spider-Man. Having recently been featured in 2021’sSpider-Man: No Way Homealong with other Spider-Man villains who found themselves in the MCU, Ifans' new role inThe Last Danceis quite confusing.
Having both arms, a wife, and two children, it doesn’t seem as though Ifans is playing Connors inVenom 3. While there is a chance that he could be playing a variant who never became a scientist turned tragically mutated villain and instead chose van life with his family, it would certainly be odd. Instead, it seems far more likely that Ifans is playing a wholly new character with no regard to his far more significant role in the Spider-Verse (a casting decision that will no doubt be confusing and frustrating for fans).
3Venom May Be Fighting A Symbiote-Killing Monster
Perhaps A Xenophage From The Comics
There are multiple sequences in which a giant alien monster is seen attacking both Venom as well as the military base. It could be a version of the comics' Grendel, a massive symbiote dragon sent to Earth and was created billions of years ago byKnull the Symbiote God.However, it could also be a new alien species from the comics known as a Xenophage, a symbiote-killing creature with a taste for Klyntar host brains. There certainly seems to be more of a passing resemblance to the latter.
2Venom Can Bond With Non-Human Beings
Horse Mode Activated
A key final sequence at the end of Venom 3’s first trailer is Eddie convincing Venom to bond with a horse.Confirming that Venom can indeed bond with non-humans, the horse becomes completely Venomized: black skin, teeth, tongue, and all. Additionally, there’s also a callback to the firstVenommovie when Eddie loses his grip on the Venomized horse in midair, only for Venom to pull him back on with his tendrils just like the first movie’s motorcycle chase in San Francisco.
1Venom 3 Teases Major Deaths
“Till Death Do They Part”
As the last chapter of Sony’sVenomtrilogy, it does seem as though a major death is in the works forThe Last Dance, and perhaps more than one. While “The Last Dance” is certainly a foreboding subtitle on its own, the tagline for the movie is"Till Death Do They Part".As such, it wouldn’t be surprising if either Eddie and/or Venom ended up sacrificing themselves to save the world, either from the Klyntar or something worse that’s yet to be revealed in this first trailer.
Venom: The Last Danceis set to release on October 25th, 2024
Venom: The Last Dance
Venom: The Last Dance is a film directed by an undisclosed director, featuring the character Venom in a thrilling narrative. The movie explores the alien symbiote’s latest challenges and transformations as it navigates through a world full of danger and new adversaries.
