Tom Hardy has revealed that he was “shut” to starring in a crossover movie between his character Venom and Spider-man.
The British actor performed Eddie Brock, aka Venom, for 3 movies between 2018 and 2024. The character is one among Spider-man’s most formidable villains from the comics, however the massive display model centered on Brock, making him a sympathetic anti-hero. Brock seems in a credit scene throughout 2021’s Spider-man: No Method House, however the pair by no means shared the display collectively.
Hardy bowed out with final 12 months’s Venom: The Final Dance, making any probability of his Venom assembly Spidey unlikely. Talking on The Discourse Podcast, Hardy stated his kids have been disenchanted that there was no crossover, and when requested what occurred replied: “I don’t know easy methods to reply that query”.
With out giving a particular purpose, he alluded to studio politics being the rationale why it by no means got here to mild, and did share that it very practically occurred. “We bought shut,” he stated. “We bought as shut as I may presumably think about getting, aside from doing a movie collectively, which I’d have beloved to have completed as a result of that simply means a lot enjoyable”.
When requested what he wished from any potential venture, he replied: “Basically, for me, it might be for the youngsters. As a result of, you understand, as a lot as adults love superhero movies, as you possibly can inform by the field workplace after they’re profitable, I believe I’m always reminded by kids how essential these characters are. They usually don’t know why their favorite characters aren’t in movies collectively”.
Venom, in addition to the standalone Spider-man movies, are produced Sony, and whereas there may be crossover with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which Tom Holland’s Peter Parker seems in, there are restrictions as to what they can do with their world.
Hardy defined: “We got a set of boundaries, and we have been simply actually privileged to have the ability to play with a much-beloved IP like Venom in a means that we have been allowed to play, and in that (regard), we did what we may and what we beloved doing”.
He continued: “We poured all of ourselves into it inside the remits of what we have been allowed to do with him. And so the enjoyment of the work outweighed the boundaries of our potentialities with him as a result of we simply centered on what we have been allowed to do. And we beloved doing it”.
