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“Venom: The Last Dance” First-Reactions Devour the Internet at Trilogy Capper Premieres

October 22, 2024
By The Credits

Director Kelly Marcel and star Tom Hardy finally unleashed Venom: The Last Dance on Monday night, with Sony Pictures premiering the film in New York. This means that now that Hardy’s Eddie Brock and best alien symbiote buddy Venom have finally waltzed in front of a crowd, the first reactions have flooded social media. 

The Last Dance is, as its title suggests, Hardy’s final turn as the investigative reporter turned body-snatched antihero, appearing in a story he cooked up with first-time director Marcel, a longtime Venom scribe herself. Marcel has been working with Hardy since the very beginning in director Ruben Fleischer’s 2018 hit Venom and then the sequel, Andy Serkis’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which co-starred Woody Harrelson as the alien symbiote that made Venom look mild-mannered by comparison. The Last Dance picks up after the events in Let There Be Carnage, with Eddie and Venom now pursued by Earthly authorities and some seriously upset baddies from Venom’s home planet.

“Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo is forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie’s last dance,” the logline states. Hardy is joined by newcomers Juno Temple and Chiwetel Ejiofor, alongside Rhys Ifans, Peggy Lu, Alanna Ubach, and Stephen Graham. 

The reactions have been almost uniformly positive, with folks writing that it’s a whacky, wild, funny, and fitting end to Hardy’s three-film run as the world’s most adaptive human, becoming best buds with the insatiable alien symbiote who took over his body. It’s a road trip movie with a lot of good old-fashioned alien head-chomping.

Plus, Hardy and Marcel made a great team. Hardy wrote in an Instagram post last November that he loved making the final film with Marcel. “It’s been and continues to be a lot of fun this journey — there’s always hard turns to burn when we work, but [it] doesn’t feel as hard when you love what you do and when you know you have great material and the support at all sides, of a great team. I want to mention very briefly how proud of my director, writing partner and dear friend Kelly Marcel I am. Watching you taking the helm on this one fills me with pride, it is an honour. Trust your gut, your instincts are always spot on.”

Venom: The Last Dance hits theaters on October 25. Let’s have a peek at some of those first reactions.

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Featured image: “Venom: The Last Dance” poster. Courtesy Sony Pictures.

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