Sony on Tuesday said its third movie in the Venom franchise now has a name and a new release date: It's called Venom: The Last Dance, and it's now opening October 25 this year, not November 8. The threequel will screen in Imax and on PLFs.
Venom 3 will be Eddie Brock's last dance with the alien symbiote in the Sony movie series launched in 2018. In an interview with Deadline, Sony chairman Tom Rothman discussed a few IPs under their studios, where he confirmed that “The third and last Venom is going to be huge.”
Tom Holland's Spider-Man is unlikely to appear in Venom 3, despite speculation and the introduction of the multiverse in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The filming of Venom 3 was affected by the 2023 Hollywood strikes, but no public hints have been given about Holland's Spider-Man appearing in the film.
Yes, you heard it right, 'Venom: The Last Dance' marks the end of the 'Venom' franchise in the Sony Spider-Man Universe. There's speculation that the character might crossover into the MCU in the future, but that's just hearsay for now.
In a flashback, it is revealed that she got pregnant with Eddie's child after bonding to Venom. After giving birth to their son Dylan, she left him in the care of Carl Brock, with the promise that she would return eventually. She instead committed suicide, after which Carl raised Dylan.
Dylan Brock is the son of Eddie Brock, Anne Weying, and the Venom symbiote. When Anne bonded to the Venom symbiote, the will of the Symbiote Hive caused her codex to incarnate into a human form, with the intent of having the ensuing human/symbiote hybrid destroy their god Knull.
Venom is an immortal extra-dimensional fragment of a destroyed hive-mind. Eddie Brock, on the other hand, is a simple man from New York City who is entirely mortal. This means that, while the Venom symbiote can heal Eddie's wounds, it can't stop him from aging. This is what ultimately does Eddie in.
Additional cast members joined in mid-2023, and filming began in late June 2023 in Spain but was halted the next month due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Filming resumed in November after the strike concluded and it was nearly completed by early 2024 when the title was revealed.
With anticipation mounting and production nearing its conclusion, "Venom: The Last Dance" is set to deliver another blockbuster hit, captivating audiences and solidifying its place in superhero cinematic history. Get ready to witness the symbiotic superhero in action once again on October 25, 2024.
In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3, the Venom symbiote comes to Earth via a random meteorite landing right next to Peter Parker's scooter, before latching onto it and later infecting Parker through symbiosis, creating the Black-Suit Spider-Man which eventually leads to the birth of Eddie Brock's Venom.
Anne commented on it was nice, only misinterpreted by Eddie about their kiss, but she clarified that it was about the power as Eddie suggested. Anne would also promise Eddie to not tell Dan about their mutual kiss.
Anne Weying first met Eddie Brock while a law student at Empire State University, and fell in love with him after he falsely claimed to have saved her from a group of thugs. Anne and Eddie eventually married, and while he became a journalist for the Daily Globe she became a successful lawyer.
The Marvel Universe can be a hard place to grow up—especially for kids like Dylan Brock, the son of Eddie Brock. Even though he didn't know his dad for the first half of his life, Dylan endured the horror and chaos of Eddie's adventures as Venom before he reached high school.
The identity of the baby's father is not known to the reader for much of the novel, though it is eventually revealed that Essie's brother Caleb repeatedly raped her from age twelve and impregnated her.
More recently there was the canonical statement of Venom's that they love Eddie. Once the film was released fans were quick to create jokes about their relationship. Many comparing them to the demon possession vine, or how Venom became emotionally attached to Eddie. He got physically attached pretty quickly as well.
The Scream symbiote appears in the Spider-Man series finale "Maximum Venom", voiced by Meg Donnelly. This version is the older sister of the Venom symbiote who was created by Knull to serve as a member of the Symbiote sisters alongside Mania and Scorn.
Out of the five alien symbiotes that were forcefully extracted from Venom (while bonded with Eddie Brock) by the Life Foundation, Donna's is the only one still active today that is not bonded to Hybrid. Donna first appeared bonded to her yellow-and-red symbiote at a mall in San Francisco as a test of her abilities.
