'Venom: The Last Dance' Sets Horse For Netflix
One last drink for Tom Hardy’s dual performance as Eddie Brock and Venom
You gotta know when there’s Venom, know when to view em. Sony Pictures’s penultimate Spider-Man villain/anti-hero movie, Venom: The Last Dance has set a date with Netflix, and it’s one that personally should’ve been prepared for. The final installment of the Venom trilogy has arrived on the streamer today, February 25.
And yes, I somehow missed the announcement, but it’s been 123 days since its October 25 theatrical release. A little extra from the typical 120 days but the overrun is too minuscule to matter enough to get uproarious. As previously reported, Saturday Night took around this long. From what I can glean, the date was discovered two weeks ago on February 11, and both Comic Book Resources and What’s On Netflix indicate its page was set up with that day with its date flag visible to all. Netflix marked the occasion simply by tweeting “kiss?” with a Venom screencap before announcing the film was available in all caps. At the box office, The Last Dance grossed $479 million globally, on a $139.8 million domestic $339.1 million international split. It’s only slightly below the $506 million the previous installment Venom: Let There Be Carnage made.
In this film, Eddie and Venom, played by Tom Hardy are on the run after being made prime suspect in the apparent murder of Patrick Mulligan, played by Stephen Graham, but in fact was picked up by the Imperium. Not that the general public would know about a secret scientific organization. The logline continued “Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance." Really on point there.
Venom: The Last Dance also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as General Rex Strickland, a commander for the Imperium, Juno Temple as Imperium scientist Teddy Paine, Clark Backo as Imperium researcher Sadie Christmas, Rhys Ifans as hippie alien enthusiast Martin Moon, Alanna Ubach as his hippie wife Nova, Peggy Lu returning as Mrs. Chen, and Let There Be Carnage director Andy Serkis as Knull, creator of the symbiotes and the villain of the film as he seeks Eddie and Venom's codex to free himself. The film is directed by Kelly Marcel from a screenplay she wrote, based on a story she and Hardy concocted. The film is produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, Amy Pascal, Marcel, Hardy and Hutch Parker. Ooh baby baby it’s a wild one.
Source: What’s On Netflix