Venom 3: Production Resumes on Tom Hardy’s Franchise, Directed by Kelly Marcel

Production has restarted on Venom 3, the film’s star Tom Hardy, noted on Instagram Friday.
Venom Let There Be Carnage
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“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 about the latest installment in the trilogy about an alien symbiote who exists in the same universe as Spider-Man.

Hardy also posted a photo from the “Venom 3” set on Nov. 16, so the shoot has been under way for several days.

Since “Venom 3” has to halt production for several months, the big-budget comic book tentpole wouldn’t have been completed in time to make its original summer release date.

“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 wrote: “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.

Star Juno Temple (“Ted Lasso”) and actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”) have 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.

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