Venom: Let There Be Carnage Cameras Rolling!
Production has restarted on “Venom 3,” the film’s star Tom Hardy shared Friday on Instagram.
“Thankfully we are back to shooting; and I want to take a moment just to thank all the teams thus far on the ride from V1 to here all our fantastic cast and crew- good friends and family – we’ve come a long way,” he wrote in regards to the latest installment in the trilogy about an alien symbiote who exists in the same universe as Spider-Man.
Hardy had also posted a photo from the “Venom 3” set on Nov. 16, so the shoot has apparently been underway for several days.
The news follows SAG-AFTRA’s Nov. 8 approval of atentative dealto end the 118-day actors strike. On the same day the strike ended, Sony Pictures pushed back the film’s release date by a few months, from July 12, 2024, to Nov. 8. Since “Venom 3” has to halt production for several months, the big-budget comic book tentpole likely wouldn’t have been completed in time to make its original summer spot. It’s a fate that faces other films of its size and scale, like “Mission: Impossible 8,” which Paramount has already delayed by nearly an entire year, to 2025.
“Venom 3” follows the back-to-back box office successes of 2021’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” ($502 million globally) and 2018’s “Venom” ($856 million globally). Kelly Marcel, who penned the first two films, is directing and writing the threequel.
Hardy mentioned Marcel in his post, writing “I want to mention very briefly how proud of my director, writing partner and dear friend Kelly Marcel. Watching you taking the helm on this one fills me with pride, it is an honor. Trust your gut, your instincts are always spot on. First class – I back you.”
Aside from Hardy’s return as journalist Eddie Brock and his unwitting sidekick and parasite Venom, the plot of the third installment has been kept under wraps. “Ted Lasso” star Juno Templeand “12 Years a Slave” actorChiwetel Ejioforhave joined the cast in undisclosed roles. Hardy’s otherworldly lethal protector last appears in the end credits of 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” but it’s unclear which of Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters — one that includes Morbius, Kraven the Hunter and Madame Web, among others — might show up in “Venom 3.”
“Here’s to a great ride!” Hardy’s post concluded.
