Sony Takes 'Venom 3' Two Weeks Earlier As 'The Last Dance'
Eddie and Venom are themselves under pressure, and I took that personally
Sony Pictures has officially retitled Venom 3, and as the saying goes, nothing lasts forever. One could say the last dance has been saved for Eddie Brock and his symbiote, in fact star Tom Hardy already has. The film is officially titled Venom: The Last Dance, and has been taken back into familiar territory, as the studio has moved up its release date from November 8 to October 25.
No Michael Jordan cameos are expected, nor should they be, so don’t take that personally. With the move, the horror-infused and Spider-Man-adjacent love story makes its way back into the Halloween season, as both previous films, 2018’s Venom and 2021’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage, had October releases as well, though those were first weekers, on October 5 and 1 respectively, earning $1.3 billion combined, far and away Sony’s most successful Spider-Man villain character.
Otherwise, still very little is known about Venom: The Last Dance. Tom Hardy is of course back as Eddie Brock and Venom, and he’s joined by Juno Temple, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Clark Backo. Character details for the three of them have yet to be revealed, and there are probably a good handful of cast members that haven’t been revealed yet either. It was Temple who revealed at the SAG Awards that filming was starting to wind down. Filming had originally started in late June, and so easily and quickly ran into a stoppage upon the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike. It resumed on November 16, a quick regroup following the end of the strike less than a week earlier. It was the prolonged fights of both it and the WGA strike that bumped The Last Dance out of the June 2024 spot it was originally placed in just a couple of weeks into the simultaneity.
Hardy had seemingly revealed the title back when production resumed in November, celebrating that the day came. Venom: The Last Dance is directed by Kelly Marcel, in a debut from a screenplay she wrote that from a story she and Hardy developed. The pair also produce the film alongside Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, Amy Pascal and Hutch Parker.
Sources: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter