FILM · 2018 · CHINA
Venom
- Directed by
- Ruben Fleischer
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Studio
- Matt Tolmach Productions, Pascal Pictures, Marvel Entertainment
150 archived facts 7 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful alien symbiote. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.
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123 Interesting Facts About Venom
- #001
Tom Hardy's son Louis Thomas Hardy is a Venom fan, and Hardy took the role to please him: "I wanted to do something my son could watch. So I did something where I bite people's heads off." Louis also guided his father on how to portray Brock/Venom properly, since Hardy did not know the character very well.
- #002
Tom Hardy recorded his lines for the Venom symbiote during pre-production, and they were played to him on set through an earpiece during the scenes in which Brock and the symbiote talk to each other.
- #003
At about 1 hour 30 minutes, the Venom symbiote suggests chocolate. According to the 1995 miniseries "Venom: The Hunger," symbiotes need a chemical called phenethylamine, which is found in brains and in chocolate.
- #005
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Ann Weying briefly uses the Venom symbiote to save Eddie. This is a nod to the comics, in which Weying briefly wears the symbiote under the name She-Venom.
- #006
At about 59 minutes, Venom's line "Eyes! Lungs! Pancreas! So many snacks, so little time!" comes from "Amazing Spider-Man" #374.
- #008
Tom Hardy describes Venom as a tragic clown: "There's something funny about the conditions of having a tragic talent. It's a superpower you really don't want, but at the same time you love it. It makes you feel special. He's both a reluctant hero and an anti-hero."
- #009
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At about 1 hour 35 minutes, in the mid-credits scene, Eddie interviews an inmate (Woody Harrelson) who says, "When I get out of here, and I will, there's gonna be carnage." The character is Cletus Kasady, who will become Carnage after a symbiote uses him as a host.
- #010
In the comics, the Venom symbiote was initially worn by Peter Parker as a Spider-Man suit after he found it on another planet, and it eventually left him and bonded to Eddie Brock. The film, however, removes any connection to Spider-Man by having the Life Foundation discover the symbiotes independently. In fact, Venom does not have the giant "white spider" emblem typically seen on his chest.
- #011
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This is the last film featuring Stan Lee to be released during his lifetime, before his death on November 12, 2018. He shot two more cameos that were released after his death: Captain Marvel (2019) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
- #012
Anne Weying works at a law firm called Michelinie & McFarlane. These are the names of Venom's creators, David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane.
- #015
Tom Hardy considers Venom the coolest Marvel hero because "he has a brazen swagger and a zero foxtrot attitude."
- #016
Michelle Williams told "The Hollywood Reporter" that Tom Hardy was the main reason she decided to sign on to "Venom." "He's so talented and so committed. He also makes unusual choices in a moment-to-moment, scene-by-scene kind of way."
- #017
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The producers state that the Venom comic book stories "Lethal Protector" (in which Venom becomes a vigilante protector of San Francisco) and "Planet of the Symbiotes" (in which Earth is invaded by an army of symbiotes) influenced the film.
- #018
When asked what it was like to work with Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams told Screen Rant: "One of my favorite things about working with him is that he can find the real thing. Even while dealing with monsters and really wild physicality and language that you've never said before, he can always find the thing that really grounds it."
- #019
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In the comics, Riot was nothing more than another member of the Life Foundation's symbiote team, The Brute, and was not very powerful; all he could do was transform his limbs into blunt weapons like hammers and maces. In this film he was elevated to the Big Bad; he not only shapeshifts into sharp objects and is more deadly, but he also surpasses Venom in terms of power.
- #020
Paul J. Franklin, who oversaw Venom's visual effects, recalled different iterations of what he called the "sonic freak out" effect in an interview. The "sonic freak out" is what happens when Venom hears certain sound frequencies. One of the first ideas was to create a full three-dimensional effect of something "extruding" from Eddie's skin, and evidence of this can be seen in the MRI scene.
- #021
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(At about 1 hour 35 minutes) Cletus Kasady is introduced while waiting for Eddie to arrive, writing the message "Welcome Eddie" on his cell bars in his own blood. His first comic-book appearance as Carnage had him do the same to his victim, scrawling "Carnage Rules!" on the walls of the crime scene.
- #023
Tom Hardy discussed the influence of The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991) on the relationship between Eddie Brock and Venom: "I always saw Venom as a lizard and Eddie Brock as an ordinary man who inherits this enormous ego monster."
- #024
John Jameson is the astronaut who survives the shuttle accident. In Marvel Comics, he becomes the Man-Wolf after finding the "Moonstone," which attaches itself to him like a symbiote on the moon.
- #025
The producers cite the films of horror directors John Carpenter and David Cronenberg, as well as the horror comedies An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Ghostbusters (1984), as influences.
- #026
When Screen Rant asked Tom Hardy about Venom's voice, Hardy said: "Content-wise, Redman, Busta Rhymes, James Brown. And I played with that. A fusion toward creating what you hear, which doesn't sound anything like them."
- #027
Tom Hardy based his performance as Eddie Brock/Venom on three performers: Woody Allen ("the tortured neurosis and all the humor that can come from that"), martial artist Conor McGregor ("the taste and capability for uber-violence") and Redman ("out of control, living rent-free in his head.").
- #028
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In the film's final fight scene, Venom is briefly highlighted with red and blue lights. This is a tribute to Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994), in which Venom's design had red and blue highlights.
- #029
The film was released on the 30th anniversary of Venom's first appearance in Marvel Comics (May 1988).
- #031
(At about 1 hour 35 minutes) The prison Eddie visits is the same one used for Iron Heights Penitentiary in The CW's Arrow (2012) universe.
- #032
Tom Hardy discussed singer James Brown's influence on Venom's voice.
- #033
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In the first script, Carnage was initially planned to be included as the main villain, but his role was ultimately replaced by Riot, and Carnage was saved for Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).
- #034
This is Michelle Williams's first superhero film. Asked why she wanted to be part of the film, she said: "I always like to do things I haven't done before, genres, episodes. I like a challenge, and one of those challenges is stepping into a bigger world."
- #035
(At about the 28th minute) The market scene between Dora Etekh and Eddie Brock was the first scene Jenny Slate read. In an interview she said: "I'd never played a character like this before. And also, this is one-on-one. Like, 'Wow, if I get this role, I'll actually be in a scene with Tom Hardy.' Like, great, yeah."
- #037
WILHELM SCREAM: It is heard when Venom throws an SFPD SWAT officer over the railing of the office building lobby. But it is not in the digital release.
- #039
Before the premiere of the second trailer, it was said that the character Venom would appear only in the film's final act. Fans were relieved when the second trailer showed many scenes featuring the character. The final film also featured Venom heavily in the action scenes, but Tom Hardy revealed that 30-40 minutes of the film, including his favorite scenes, had been removed.
- #040
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At roughly 1 hour 23 minutes, during the fight with Riot, the spider emblem can be seen on Eddie's chest for a very brief moment as the symbiote is torn apart.
- #042
Ruben Fleischer knew after watching Tim Burton's Batman (1989) that he wanted to make his own superhero film one day, because of "... the dark tone of the film, the incredible production design and the amazing action and (Jack) Nicholson playing the Joker and Michael Keaton playing Batman."
- #043
Director Ruben Fleischer wanted Venom to look different in tone from other comic book films. In a recent interview he said: "... I wanted to make a darker, braver, sharper comic book film that also has a strong horror element inherent in the character and the comic. Those were the aspects: darker, sharper, braver."
- #045
According to an interview CinemaBlend conducted with director Ruben Fleischer, an earlier version of the film showed Venom's home planet covered in symbiotes.
- #046
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In an interview, visual effects supervisor Paul J. Franklin said that when a symbiote takes over a host, the eyes change to a different color depending on the symbiote's identity. "Riot was the hardest because it was difficult to sell the idea of bronze in the eyes without them going gray and matte. In the end we added a bit of silver sheen to keep it metallic."
- #048
At roughly 58 minutes, in Vincent Frei's interview with Paul J. Franklin, Franklin said the most complex part of the motorcycle chase was the "SUV sandwich," in which Eddie is nearly caught between two vehicles. That particular moment was shot on a soundstage, and additional details were added later: the vehicles' windows, backgrounds, the vehicles' wheels and "webs of gooey tentacles."
- #050
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Jackie Earle Haley expressed interest in playing the role of Carnage.
- #051
Although hints about the character had appeared earlier, Venom's major introduction in the comics was in The Amazing Spider-Man #299 and #300. These comics also revealed Venom's weaknesses to fire and sound waves.
- #052
At roughly the 41st minute, the "airport" where the old woman takes over the little girl's body is actually the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
- #054
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The Venom symbiote can at times be aggressive, violent and sadistic, but it resembles a hunter fighting to survive more than a monster. It generally never harms or kills people who pose no direct threat to it or to Eddie, and it limits its more extreme actions for the sake of pragmatism. The creature later comes to genuinely value Eddie as more than a vehicle and seems to truly enjoy staying on Earth with him. Compare this with Riot, who is genuinely sadistic and takes pleasure in bringing the rest of its kind to Earth.
- #055
Emilio Rivera appeared in both live-action films featuring Venom. He played a police officer in Spider-Man 3 (2007) and a security guard in Venom.
- #057
According to an interview with VFX supervisor Paul J. Franklin, most of the motorcycle chase was shot in Atlanta, Georgia. The art department spent a great deal of time decorating the Atlanta streets to look more like San Francisco, including removing many CNN and Coca-Cola logos.
- #058
While preparing for the film, director Ruben Fleischer visited SpaceX, the rocket manufacturer and launch facility in California. The facility's modern look influenced the appearance of the mission control set in Venom.
- #059
The Malaysia market scene was shot on a dirt lot in Rex, Georgia, which set decorator Larry Dias and his team dressed heavily.
- #060
This is the only Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film in which Stan Lee appeared as both a cameo actor and an executive producer. He died one month after the film's release and before filming began on any future SSU film.
- #061
Jenny Slate's character, Dora Etekh, is an original character created specifically for the film.
- #062
Topher Grace, who played Eddie Brock/Venom in Spider-Man 3 (2007), praises Tom Hardy in the role of Venom.
- #064
(At about 1 hour 30 minutes) At the end of the final scene before the credits, a sign for Ron Lim Herbal is visible. Ron Lim is an artist who worked on the first Venom solo series.
- #065
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Drake says that asking a little girl a question on a school trip is not wrong and warns that there will be those who try to silence questioners. Just one scene later, he is upset when Eddie asks him questions about his dirty laundry and gets him thrown out of the venue. Drake proves himself a hypocrite three times in a single scene. He tries to comfort a homeless test subject with the biblical story of Isaac (despite his sarcasm), talks about sacrifice (when he is not the one making it), and promises the homeless man he will not "abandon us" (and then cooperates with Riot to hand the Earth over to the symbiotes).
- #066
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Although the film's official runtime is 1:52, the actual story ends at 1:32. The remaining portion is taken up by the credits and two post-credits/mid-credits scenes.
- #068
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One of the reasons Michelle Williams was drawn to the project was the possibility of playing She-Venom in the future.
- #070
In the comics, the Venom symbiote was bonded to Eddie. However, its connection to his body was mainly in the form of a flashy second skin layer that usually took on the appearance of civilian clothing. In this film, Eddie appears to be bonded to the symbiote in a similar way, but it also becomes part of his body, similar to how the Ultimate version bonded to the Black Suit.
- #071
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Sony considered Finn Wittrock for Venom and Alan Tudyk for Carnage.
- #072
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(At about 1 hour 13 minutes) To escape the hospital, the Venom symbiote briefly bonds with a dog. In the comics, a sled dog named Ivan was bonded to a Venom symbiote.
- #073
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Although he is not exactly a villain in the comics, Eddie before Venom did fairly questionable things as a reporter and cared more about advancing his own career than doing the right thing. In some other cases, depending on the writer, Eddie's hatred of Spider-Man was so great that it was what turned the symbiote into a lethal Yandere for Spider-Man. In this film, Eddie mildly scolds his girlfriend for working for a bad person and tries to raise claims during an interview that Carlton Drake is conducting life-threatening experiments on vulnerable people (which destroys his life and his relationship with Anne). The Venom symbiote's villainous personality in the comics may or may not have resulted from being corrupted by Eddie's Irrational Hatred of Spider-Man. This version of the symbiote starts out cheerful, violent, terrifying and hungry for human flesh. It also had a pet-like devotion to Eddie in the comics, while the film's symbiote acknowledges that it keeps Eddie alive and that he is too good a genetic match to be discarded and replaced. The second part bleeds into the film at least by the finale, when it admits it has bonded with Eddie enough to abandon Riot's invasion plan and makes a Heroic Sacrifice to protect him from the exploding rocket.
- #075
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The film's cast includes three Oscar nominees (Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams and Woody Harrelson) and one Oscar winner (Riz Ahmed).
- #076
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Whenever the Venom Symbiote is called a "parasite" by other characters, it throws a tantrum and makes threats that ultimately lead nowhere. Likewise, Eddie is called a "loser," often by the Symbiote itself.
- #077
(Around 1 hour 30 minutes) The scene in which Venom catches a robber, puts his hand on his shoulder and threatens him closely resembles Tom Hardy's final step into the comic-book world with The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Even the prey asks, "What the hell are you?"
- #080
For director Ruben Fleischer, it was important to make San Francisco in "Venom" look real. He told "The San Francisco Chronicle": "We wanted to feel a very solid and real world in the world it takes place in; not an exaggerated world, but real-life San Francisco — where this journalist unexpectedly undergoes a transformation that results in a larger-than-life experience."
- #081
Patricia Puentes of "CNET" interviewed visual effects supervisor Paul J. Franklin, who said that to create the effect of Venom taking over Eddie's body they had to do very precise body tracking on Tom Hardy. They used three, sometimes four additional cameras to make sure they captured all of Hardy's movements.
- #082
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Among the many actors fans demanded and rumored for the role of "Carnage" (Jim Carrey, Michael C. Hall and Michael Fassbender), the only one who showed great interest in playing the role was Cameron Monaghan. Monaghan is known for his breakthrough role and fan-favorite "Jerome" in the television series Gotham (2014).
- #083
It is the first film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) in addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
- #084
In the comics Eddie Brock is 1.70 tall and has strawberry-blond hair, though this has varied across different interpretations of the character. In the film, Tom Hardy, who plays Eddie Brock, is 1.70 tall and has dark brown hair.
- #085
Paul J. Franklin (VFX supervisor), in his interview with "CNET", shared that the bicycle chase section in which Eddie goes uphill was actually shot in San Francisco. There are several more points during the chase where Eddie passes well-known intersections, and these were also shot in San Francisco.
- #086
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At the end of the credits there is a list of the licensed music used in the film, and the last piece named is "Music from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)." Of course, a comic-book panel suddenly appears reading "Meanwhile, in another universe…" and a clip from that film begins to play.
- #087
This is the fourth Marvel Entertainment/Marvel Studios film set in San Francisco, after Hulk (2003), Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).
- #088
When "The Hollywood Reporter" asked Michelle Williams whether she would one day like to play a superhero on screen, she said yes. "When these films are good," she said, "they can provide such a fun outlet for that, both for the actors who make them and the audiences who watch them."
- #089
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(Around 39 minutes in) After Eddie returns home after being infected by the Venom symbiote, he immediately eats everything he sees, including several frozen french fries in the refrigerator; eventually (around 1 hour 30 minutes in), when they go shopping, Venom wants tater tots and chocolate.
- #090
(Around 10 minutes in) While Eddie is going through Anne's emails, an email arrives from someone named "Bodhi". Riz Ahmed played a character named Bodhi in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).
- #091
According to an interview with VFX supervisor Paul J. Franklin, director Ruben Fleischer drew inspiration from films such as director John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) and director John Landis's An American Werewolf in London (1981) "when making" Venom.
- #092
Tom Hardy recently told "RTE Entertainment" that while developing his character in "Venom" he drew on MMA fighter Conor McGregor because "he wants to have a scrap with everybody." Hardy also stated that he drew inspiration from the "neuroses of Woody Allen" and from "Indiana Jones"'s Harrison Ford.
- #093
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(Around 1 hour 30 minutes) In the first part of the creative end title sequence there are black-and-white graphics, Venom's traditional colors, and for a few minutes black-and-red graphics, Carnage's colors.
- #094
Michelle Williams played a parasitic alien from space, the young Sil, in Species (1995).
- #095
Tony Todd was considered to voice Venom in this film and Carnage in Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). He voiced Venom in the video game Spider-Man 2 (2023).
- #096
The fan theory that Life (2017) is a secret prequel to this film is partly supported by the fact that the film recycles a small frame from Spider-Man 3 (2007), Venom's first live-action film appearance.
- #097
Venom was named the 22nd Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Villains list. IGN also ranked Mac Gargan's Venom incarnation 17th and Flash Thompson's incarnation 27th on its "The Top 50 Avengers" list. The character also placed 33rd on Empire's list of the 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters.
- #098
Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Dr Etekh (Jenny Slate) communicate via the IMQQ chat platform. IMQQ is owned by Tencent, a Chinese-owned technology and media conglomerate. Tencent holds the exclusive distribution rights for Sony Pictures in China and for the offices in San Francisco where this film was shot.
- #099
Of the five Marvel-based films released in 2018, this is the only one that is not a sequel. However, although Black Panther (2018) was a spin-off of Captain America: Civil War (2016) and part of the unified Marvel Cinematic Universe, it was the start of its own sub-series.
- #100
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(Around 25 minutes) As Carlton Drake tells the test subject Isaac how they are changing humanity for the better through a "sacrifice" like the biblical Isaac, the scene closely resembles the engineering room scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) with "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one." Carlton even places his hand on the laboratory window, and Isaac responds by matching his hand to Carlton's, just as Kirk and Spock did.
- #101
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(Around 1 hour 26 minutes) Just before Venom destroys Drake's rocket, he tells Riot to "have a nice life," the same thing Drake said to Eddie when he interviewed him at the start of the film. After Eddie is fired, Jack (from The Eddie Brock Report news channel) tells him exactly the same thing.
- #102
This is production designer Oliver Scholl's fifth comic book film, after Batman Forever (1995), Elektra (2005), Suicide Squad (2016) and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
- #103
When a little girl raises her hand to ask a question during the school group tour, Drake invites her forward and gives a speech about how "they try to silence the ones who ask questions, but the ones who ask questions are the ones who change the world." He then gives her the badge from his lapel. But he never lets her ask her question.
- #104
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The name "Venom" is first spoken at exactly the 1-hour mark. (1:00:00).
- #105
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When the symbiote leaves Isaac's body and attaches itself to the glass, it foreshadows that Riot will bond with Carlton Drake and reach the symbiote, just as happened when Venom was forcibly removed from Eddie in the hospital.
- #106
In the opening scene where Riot controls the E.M.T., it covers the M on the ponytail jacket so that it appears to read E.T. (as in Extra-Terrestrial).
- #107
It was the seventh highest-grossing film of 2018.
- #108
It was released on the same day as A Star Is Born (2018). Both films were shot by Matthew Libatique.
- #109
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(Around 1 hour 26 minutes) In a recent interview, visual effects supervisor Paul J. Franklin said his favorite scene in the film is the one where Venom cuts open the spaceship's fuel tanks with Riot's blade. "It's a great bit of linear storytelling, which provides an unexpected twist at the end of it all," he says.
- #110
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(Around 52 minutes) After beating up the men Carlton Drake sent to Eddie's home, Venom suggests that he and Eddie bite off all their heads and pile them in a corner. Eddie is clearly horrified by the suggestion. Later (around 1 hour 18 minutes), after the Venom symbiote temporarily uses her as a host to save Eddie, Anne does exactly that to Roland Treece. After passing the symbiote to Eddie with a kiss, she reacts to Eddie much as he did once she realizes what she has done to Treece.
- #112
Tom Hardy was considered to play Doctor Strange in Doctor Strange (2016).
- #113
Principal photography began in October 2017 in Atlanta, New York City and San Francisco.
- #115
Tom Hardy played a well-known TV/film character in a live-action reimagining for the fourth time, after Shinzon (also known as Jean-Luc Picard's evil clone) in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Bane in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Mad Max in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
- #116
Alex Kurtzman and Dante Harper were originally set to direct and write the film, respectively.
- #117
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Lin-Manuel Miranda wanted to play Carnage.
- #118
Zac Efron joked on April Fools' Day that he would play Eddie Brock.
- #119
With the news that Ron Cephas Jones would appear in the film, some suspected it would be Bobby Fish, the Luke Cage (2016) character last seen traveling to California to see his daughter; even if Sony was not yet ready to fully add its films to the MCU (or, more accurately, even if the MCU was not ready to fully add Sony's films), sharing a minor character like Bobby could be their way of testing the waters.
- #120
Six Ducatti motorcycles were used in the film.
- #121
Riz Ahmed sees Carlton Drake as someone trying to "navigate an ethical framework within the logic of the conflict and morality."
- #122
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Wade Williams, the prison guard in the post-credits scene, also played the prison guard Brad Bellick in Prison Break (2005).
- #124
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Jenny Slate is killed in a film for the first time.
- #125
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Two actors also appear in A Star Wars Story films. Riz Ahmed, who plays Carlton Drake/Riot, appears as Bodhi Rook in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). Woody Harrelson, who plays Cletus Kasady/Carnage, appears as Tobias Beckett in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).
- #126
Stephen Farrelly and Kellan Lutz wanted to play Venom.
- #127
The first trailer received 64 million online views in its first 24 hours.
- #128
Josh Emerson was a fan favorite to play Eddie Brock/Venom.
- #129
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Woody Harrelson appeared with Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin and Emma Stone in director Ruben Fleischer's first feature film, Zombieland (2009). Stone and Eisenberg have their own comic book film connections; Eisenberg appears in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017), and Stone plays Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
- #130
Eddie drinks Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
- #132
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At about 1 hour and 26 minutes, Venom's "Death" closely resembles Senketsu's Heroic Sacrifice in Kill La Kill (2013).
- #133
Gary Ross was in talks to direct the film.
- #134
Venom's world premiere was held on October 1, 2018, at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles.
- #135
Fans suggested Jensen Ackles and Timothy Olyphant to play Venom.
- #136
Tom Hardy and Jenny Slate also appeared in This Means War (2012).
- #137
Following Kevin Spacey's removal from the film, Michelle Williams' schedule had to be kept flexible because reshoots were required for All the Money in the World (2017), directed by Ridley Scott.
- #138
Michelle Lee's role was said to be Donna Diego.
- #139
Computer consulting services were provided by Walter O'Brien of Scorpion Computer Services. He is the real-life person on whom Scorpion (2014) is based.
- #140
Jenny Slate was set to play Harley Quinn in the Batman DC universe in The Lego Batman Movie (2017), while Tom Hardy played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
- #141
In a recent interview, Michelle Williams described herself as "a person who's drawn to making small films with a small group of people." She has made several films with director Kelly Reichardt, including Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Certain Women (2016).
- #142
Both Jenny Slate and Riz Ahmed appeared in HBO's popular series Girls (2012), created by Lena Dunham and executive produced by Judd Apatow.
- #144
Dr. Dan Lewis is not the first doctor Reid Scott has played. He also played Dr. Todd Mauer on The Big C (2010) and Dr. Jeff Zegay on The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008).
- #146
Adam Wingard was approached to direct but declined in favor of Godzilla vs. Kong (2021).
- #147
David F. Sandberg was approached to direct but declined, choosing Shazam! (2019) instead.
- #149
Venom was the first Marvel Comics film to be released in October and the fourth Marvel Comics film to be released in the fall, following Thor: The Dark World (2013), Doctor Strange (2016) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017), all of which opened in November.
- #150
To coincide with the film's release, Marvel published its first Venom Omnibus, titled "Venomnibus," in 2018.
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