The film once again stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, a journalist who has an alien symbiote living within him. Together, they are Venom. This time around Woody Harrelson also stars after the actor portrayed serial killer Cletus Kasady in the post-credits scene for the first Venom, released in 2018. The new movie will see Harrellson’s Kasady transform into Carnage, a villain known as Venom’s chief antagonist in the comics.
Andy Serkis directs Venom: Let There be Carnage. Columbia Pictures film (in association with Marvel and Tencent Pictures) also stars Michelle Williams, Reid Scott and Naomie Harris as the comic book villain Shriek. The film is produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, Amy Pascal and Hutch Parker.
As always, Eddie and his alien symbiote are not the best of friends, and their arguments will reach a fever pitch in the movie, as proven in the trailer. Much of this stems from Venom's violent nature, as he wishes to go out and enact his own homicidal form of lethal protection on the evildoers of the night. Unfortunately for him, Eddie rejects these impulses and instead wants to simply get his life back on track.
This causes Venom to fight Eddie, headbutting him before doing it again to get him to finally become more proactive. The two going in different directions also manifests in other parts of the trailer, both when it comes to Anne Weying's fiance and the first confrontation with the eponymous Carnage.
Carnage takes the opportunity to bite Eddie, doing what physical damage he can, but is surprised at the taste of his blood - clearly identifying the symbiote within him. This, it seems, is Venom 2's origin for Carnage; a sliver of symbiote was absorbed into Kasady's body when he bit Eddie, and that symbiote regenerated itself in some way. It's very different to the comics, where Eddie Brock actually shared a cell with Kasady. When Venom broke Brock out, he inadvertently left a symbiotic "offspring", which bonded with the killer to become Carnage.
Venom 2 introduces the Ravencroft Institute, Marvel's version of Arkham Asylum. This played a significant role in classic '90s Spider-Man comics, which became almost as dark as Batman, with numerous Spider-Man foes consigned to the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane. More recent comics have revealed Ravencroft's backstory, establishing that the very ground the Institute is built upon has been cursed for generations. Beneath Ravencroft is a shrine to the dark god of the symbiotes Knull; one of Cletus Kasady's ancestors was himself influenced by Knull, becoming the New World's first serial killer and dying on the spot where Ravencroft would one day be founded. It's been destroyed and rebuilt with remarkable frequency in the comics, and shots in the trailers have shown Carnage burning it down in Venom: Let There Be Carnage as well.
Anne Weying, portrayed by Michelle Williams, is still a vital part of the sequel's story. She's recently become engaged to her boyfriend Dan Lewis from the previous film, which is obviously not something that either Eddie or Venom are particularly happy about. A picture of her is also shown in the trailer, though the point at which it's shown suggests that it could be either Eddie pining over her or even Carnage using his knowledge of her as bait against Eddie.Toward the end of the trailer, Venom/Eddie are shown approaching Carnage for the first time. The usually verbose and headstrong Venom, however, retreats immediately after seeing Carnage, and for a color-coded reason. Venom is alarmed that Carnage is a "red one," suggesting that symbiotes with such a color scheme are even more powerful and violent than the others.
It's only after Eddie promises Venom to have free rein on all those who he wishes to eat that the symbiote even comes back out to fight, but this definitely establishes that Carnage might be a cut above even Venom himself. This turns the anti-hero into an underdog, or better yet, a loser, increasing the stakes and guaranteeing a dramatic battle when the fight between symbiotes finally reaches maximum Carnage.
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